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.. _customizing:

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Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams
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Tips for customizing the properties and default styles of Matplotlib.

There are three ways to customize Matplotlib:

1. :ref:`Setting rcParams at runtime<customizing-with-dynamic-rc-settings>`.
2. :ref:`Using style sheets<customizing-with-style-sheets>`.
3. :ref:`Changing your matplotlibrc file<customizing-with-matplotlibrc-files>`.

Setting rcParams at runtime takes precedence over style sheets, style
sheets take precedence over :file:`matplotlibrc` files.

.. _customizing-with-dynamic-rc-settings:

Runtime rc settings
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You can dynamically change the default rc (runtime configuration)
settings in a python script or interactively from the py