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When it comes to plot colors in matplotlib, it's why I start with

import seaborn as sns

This, changes everything.

The theme seaborn uses is actually a direct clone from ggplot2 from R

Yes. Though, I think that 'whitegrid' is a cleaner theme (if there were axes).

For ggplot theme, in matplotlib there is

plt.style.use('ggplot')

'ticks' plus sns.despine() is my favorite.