This is a set of styles for matplotlib that match the color schemes and brand guide for Arizona State University. Use this to easily make charts that look on-brand and fit well in ASU presentations.
Eventually there will be multiple styles with different backgrounds available. For now the only style available is the asu-dark style, which works well on the black-background slides in the ASU PowerPoint template. Examples of available styles are shown below.
The ASU Gold is included later in the cycle of standard colors due to contrast issues between the gold and white background—other colors are more visible on the white background.
Clone or download this repository (big green button above), and copy the contents of the styles folder into the stylelib subfolder of your matplotlib configuration directory (you may need to create the stylelib directory). For me, this is ~/.matplotlib/stylelib. You can find your configuration directory by running
python -c 'import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.get_configdir())'
Create a stylelib subdirectory of that directory if it isn't already there, and copy the contents of the styles directory into the stylelib directory. Make sure that the individual files get copied, rather than the styles folder becoming a subdirectory of the stylelib directory.
Just run
plt.style.use('asu-dark')and all future plots in that session will use the asu-dark color scheme.
This is under a CC0 license, which means I waive all my copyright interest in this work. The ASU Brand Guide is ASU property. Please don't use these styles to imply affiliations with ASU that don't exist.