Controlling Seaborn figure aesthetics

While we can use Matplotlib to customize the figure aesthetics, Seaborn comes with several handy functions to make customization easier. If you are using Seaborn version 0.8 or later, seaborn.set() must be called explicitly after import if you would like to enable the beautiful Seaborn default theme. In earlier versions, seaborn.set() was called implicitly on import.

Preset themes

The five default themes in Seaborn, namely darkgrid, whitegrid, dark, white, and ticks, can be selected by calling the seaborn.set_style() function.

Note

seaborn.set_style() must be called before issuing any plotting commands in order to display the theme properly.

Removing spines from the figure

To remove or adjust the positions of spines, we can make use of the seaborn.despine function. By default, the spines on the top and right side of a figure are removed, and additional spines can be removed by setting left=True or bottom=True. Through the use of offset and trim parameters...