cheatsheets icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
cheatsheets copied to clipboard

Official Matplotlib cheat sheets

Cheatsheets for Matplotlib users

Cheatsheets

Cheatsheet (download pdf)

Handouts

Beginner handout (download pdf) Intermediate handout (download pdf) Tips handout (download pdf)

For contributors to the cheatsheets

How to compile

  1. You need to create a fonts repository with:
  • fonts/roboto/* : See https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto or https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto/tree/master/src/hinted
  • fonts/roboto-slab/* : See https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Slab or https://github.com/googlefonts/robotoslab/tree/master/fonts/static
  • fonts/source-code-pro/* : See https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro or https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/tree/release/OTF
  • fonts/source-sans-pro/* : See https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro or https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro/tree/release/OTF
  • fonts/source-serif-pro/* : See https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Serif+Pro or https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif-pro/tree/release/OTF
  • fonts/eb-garamond/* : See https://bitbucket.org/georgd/eb-garamond/src/master
  • fonts/pacifico/* : See https://fonts.google.com/download?family=Pacifico

On Linux, with make installed, the fonts can be set up with the following command:

make -C fonts

The fonts can be made discoverable by matplotlib (through fontconfig) by creating the following in $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf (see here):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<dir>/path/to/cheatsheets/fonts/</dir>
...
</fontconfig>
  1. You need to generate all the figures:
$ cd scripts
$ for script in *.py; do python $script; done
$ cd ..
  1. Compile the sheet
$ xelatex cheatsheets.tex
$ xelatex cheatsheets.tex