science.mplstyle

science.mplstyle

# Matplotlib style — Science / AAAS figure specification
# Widths 5.7 / 12.1 / 18.4 cm; Helvetica preferred (Nimbus Sans = URW Helvetica metric clone,
# the only Helvetica-metric font installed here); text ~7 pt, never < 5 pt; symbols >= 6 pt.
# Load with:  plt.style.use('style/science.mplstyle')

# --- Fonts (Helvetica is absent on this machine; Nimbus Sans matches its metrics) ---
font.family:        sans-serif
font.sans-serif:    Nimbus Sans, TeX Gyre Heros, Arimo, Helvetica, Arial, DejaVu Sans
font.size:          7          # base text ~7 pt at final size

# --- Keep text as editable vector, never outlines (Science: fonts embedded, text not outlined) ---
pdf.fonttype:       42
ps.fonttype:        42
svg.fonttype:       none

# --- Axes & labels ---
axes.titlesize:     7
axes.labelsize:     7
axes.linewidth:     0.5        # within Nature 0.25-1 pt / Cell 0.5-1.5 pt
axes.grid:          False      # no gridlines (Nature graph rule)
axes.spines.top:    False
axes.spines.right:  False
axes.labelpad:      2.0
axes.titlepad:      3.0

# --- Ticks (symbols/minor text >= 6 pt) ---
xtick.labelsize:    6
ytick.labelsize:    6
xtick.major.width:  0.5
ytick.major.width:  0.5
xtick.major.size:   2.5
ytick.major.size:   2.5
xtick.direction:    out
ytick.direction:    out

# --- Legend ---
legend.fontsize:    6
legend.frameon:     False
legend.handlelength: 1.2
legend.borderpad:   0.3
legend.columnspacing: 1.0

# --- Lines & markers ---
lines.linewidth:    1.0
lines.markersize:   3.0

# --- Output: vector by default, high-res raster where a layer opts in ---
figure.dpi:         600
savefig.dpi:        600
savefig.bbox:       tight
savefig.pad_inches: 0.01
savefig.transparent: False
figure.facecolor:   white
axes.facecolor:     white

# --- Colour: default cycle = Okabe-Ito CVD-safe categorical (Wong 2011, Nat Methods) ---
axes.prop_cycle:    cycler('color', ['E69F00','56B4E9','009E73','F0E442','0072B2','D55E00','CC79A7','000000'])
image.cmap:         viridis