mpl_drip

Installable matplotlib style sheet, a color cycle, and some nice colormaps.

I use these settings because I think they make plots that are "good", but also (as the kids would say) "dripped up".

Installation

Easiest is from PyPI either with pip

pip install mpl-drip

or uv (recommended)

uv add mpl-drip

Or, you can clone and build from source

git clone git@github.com:TomHilder/mpl_drip.git
cd mpl_drip
pip install -e .

where in the last step we made an editable install with pip but you can do whatever you like.

Usage

To use the plotting style:

import mpl_drip  # Registers the style with matplotlib

plt.style.use("drip")

To get a colour from the cycle by index, wrapping around if the index exceeds the number of colours:

from mpl_drip import get_color
c = get_color(N) # N is any positive integer

To access the custom colormaps:

from mpl_drip import colormaps
# Then simply use `red_white_blue` or `red_white_blue_r` in place of any mpl cmap
plt.imshow(..., cmap="red_white_blue_r")

Credit

The colour cycle is from manim, and the red_white_blue colourmap is from this repo.