Customizing labels and titles

In this recipe, we will learn how to customize axis labels, ticklabels, plots, and figure titles. For some of these customizations, we will set the plt.rcParams default parameters. However, these settings will be active and apply for all the plots in the session.

Getting ready

Let's import the required libraries and set up plt.rcParams(), which is also required for this recipe. These settings will be applicable to all the plots drawn in this session:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

plt.rcParams['figure.titlesize'] = 15
plt.rcParams['legend.fontsize'] = 12
plt.rcParams['axes.labelsize'] = 12
plt.rcParams['axes.labelweight'] = 'bold...