kbird 0.1.0

kBird colourmap is way better than viridis

kBird

kBird brings CERN's kBird colormap into matplotlib. It registers the colormap and sets it as your global default.

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How to use

1. Global default in matplotlib

To use kBird, simply import the library and call set().

import kbird
kbird.set()

# All plots will use kBird instead of viridis
plt.imshow(Z) 

2. Using kBird inside a specific block

If you do not want to change your global matplotlib defaults and only want to use kBird for a single plot, you can use the style() context manager:

import kbird
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Only plots generated inside this block will use kBird
with kbird.style():
    plt.imshow(Z)
    plt.show()

# Any plot out here will fall back to your standard matplotlib default
plt.imshow(Z) 

3. Manual Colormap Access

If you prefer to pass the colormap explicitly to matplotlib functions, you can import the colormap object directly:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from kbird import kbird_cmap

plt.imshow(Z, cmap=kbird_cmap)

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.