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Example of how to thicken the lines around your plot (axes lines) and to get big bold fonts on the tick and axis labels.

   1 from pylab import *
   2 
   3 # Thicken the axes lines and labels
   4 # 
   5 #   Comment by J. R. Lu:
   6 #       I couldn't figure out a way to do this on the 
   7 #       individual plot and have it work with all backends
   8 #       and in interactive mode. So, used rc instead.
   9 # 
  10 rc('axes', linewidth=2)
  11 
  12 # Make a dummy plot
  13 plot([0, 1], [0, 1])
  14 
  15 # Change size and font of tick labels
  16 # Again, this doesn't work in interactive mode.
  17 fontsize = 14
  18 ax = gca()
  19 
  20 for tick in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
  21     tick.label1.set_fontsize(fontsize)
  22     tick.label1.set_fontweight('bold')
  23 for tick in ax.yaxis.get_major_ticks():
  24     tick.label1.set_fontsize(fontsize)
  25     tick.label1.set_fontweight('bold')
  26 
  27 xlabel('X Axis', fontsize=16, fontweight='bold')
  28 ylabel('Y Axis', fontsize=16, fontweight='bold')
  29 
  30 # Save figure
  31 savefig('thick_axes.png')

thick_axes.png

SciPy: Cookbook/Matplotlib/ThickAxes (last edited 2015-10-24 17:48:25 by anonymous)