Hacker News Reader

It really depends on why you're generating the graphs for. If you needed a visualization for a storytelling article, I really doubt you'd prefer matplotlib's bland standard style.

If you just want to visualize some data fast for yourself, then, yeah, the standard style is really great - it's readable and saves you time.

View on HN

> I really doubt you'd prefer matplotlib's bland standard style (MBSS)

To be fair, MBSS got much better in the recent version 2.x

Before (version 1.x), I always had to use seaborn and/or modify parameters, but now the default style is good enough for most of my use cases.

Yes, I agree! 1.x was pretty ugly

Agree, the default style looks much better in 2.x. It's good enough for most use cases, but it's still quite far from publication level, IMO.

As someone who's moderately colorblind the color change is really helpful, so even for bland data visualizations it's actually better.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com