To use this stylesheet, you need to put it inside your mplconfig_dir. By default, mpl_configdir should be ~/.config/matplotlib, but you can check where yours is with matplotlib.get_configdir(). You can then import it with styleuse('sm').
Based on work by Monica L. Turner, http://space.mit.edu/~turnerm/python.html (accessed 5/7/2016)
| # Simplify paths by removing "invisible" points, useful for reducing | |
| # file size when plotting a large number of points | |
| path.simplify : True | |
| # Instead of individually increasing font sizes, point sizes, and line | |
| # thicknesses, I found it easier to just decrease the figure size so | |
| # that the line weights of various components still agree | |
| figure.figsize : 4,4 | |
| # I am still working on getting fonts as nice as those in SM. In the | |
| # meantime, I have settled for having the fonts in math mode agree | |
| # with the regular ones. | |
| font.family : serif | |
| mathtext.fontset : custom | |
| # Increase the tick-mark lengths (defaults are 4 and 2) | |
| xtick.major.size : 6 | |
| ytick.major.size : 6 | |
| xtick.minor.size : 3 | |
| ytick.minor.size : 3 | |
| # Increase the tick-mark widths as well as the widths of lines | |
| # used to draw marker edges to be consistent with the other figure | |
| # linewidths (defaults are all 0.5) | |
| xtick.major.width : 1 | |
| ytick.major.width : 1 | |
| xtick.minor.width : 1 | |
| ytick.minor.width : 1 | |
| lines.markeredgewidth : 1 | |
| # Have the legend only plot one point instead of two, turn off the | |
| # frame, and reduce the space between the point and the label | |
| legend.numpoints : 1 | |
| legend.frameon : False | |
| legend.handletextpad : 0.3 | |
| ## https://gist.github.com/beckermr/62a9f99ad9b275df12dc | |
| #lines | |
| #lines.linewidth : 1.0 | |
| #lines.linestyle : - | |
| #lines.color : black | |
| # | |
| ##fonts & text | |
| #font.weight : normal | |
| #font.size : 12.0 | |
| #text.color : black | |
| #text.usetex : True | |
| ##axes & ticks | |
| #axes.edgecolor : black | |
| #axes.linewidth : 1.0 | |
| #axes.grid : False | |
| #axes.titlesize : x-large | |
| #axes.labelsize : x-large | |
| #axes.labelweight : normal | |
| #axes.labelcolor : black | |
| #axes.formatter.limits : -4, 4 | |
| # | |
| #xtick.major.size : 7 | |
| #xtick.minor.size : 4 | |
| #xtick.major.pad : 6 | |
| #xtick.minor.pad : 6 | |
| #xtick.labelsize : x-large | |
| #xtick.minor.width : 1.0 | |
| #xtick.major.width : 1.0 | |
| # | |
| #ytick.major.size : 7 | |
| #ytick.minor.size : 4 | |
| #ytick.major.pad : 6 | |
| #ytick.minor.pad : 6 | |
| #ytick.labelsize : x-large | |
| # | |
| ##legends | |
| #legend.fontsize : x-large | |
| #legend.shadow : False |