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Changelog

0.1.4

New modifier styles

  • no-latex — disables LaTeX and switches to STIX fonts as a close substitute
  • despine — removes top and right spines
  • notebook — larger fonts and figure size for Jupyter notebooks
  • bright — Paul Tol's CVD-safe bright colour palette
  • muted — Paul Tol's CVD-safe muted colour palette
  • grayscale — black/grey tones with varied linestyles for B&W print

New API

  • style_context() — context manager that restores rcParams on exit
  • figsize() — returns exact figure dimensions for a journal's column width
  • save() — one-line publication-ready fig.savefig wrapper
  • use_style() now accepts inline kwarg overrides (fontsize, figsize, dpi, …)
  • All bundled styles registered as peerstyle.<name> in matplotlib's style library on import

Fixes

  • LaTeX fallback now switches to STIX fonts instead of silently degrading appearance
  • pdf.fonttype: 42 and svg.fonttype: none added to all styles (Illustrator-editable exports)
  • savefig.bbox: tight added to all styles
  • Minor ticks enabled in the ieee preset

0.1.3

New feature

  • curved_text() and CurvedText class — draw text along an arbitrary curve, with each character rotated to match the local tangent. Adapted from thiebes/curved-text (MIT).

0.1.2

0.1.1

  • Fixed README gallery images after repository rename.

0.1.0

Initial release.

  • Four bundled styles: custom_style, ieee, nature, poster.
  • use_style(), list_styles(), get_style_path().