Seaborn.set_style() method

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The Seaborn.set_style() method sets the parameters that control the general style of the plots. This method works closely with the seaborn.axes_style() method as this also checks whether the grid is enabled by default and uses its style parameters control various properties like background color etc.

Setting these parameters to control the general style of the plot can be accomplished by the matplotlib rcParams system.

Syntax

Following is the syntax of the seaborn.set_style() method −

seaborn.set_style(style=None, rc=None)

Parameters

Following are the parameters of seaborn.set_style() method −

Now we will move onto understanding the method and using it in examples.

Example 1

The style is set to “whitegrid” and a scatter plot is drawn with a list of values. The plot obtained is shown.

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
tips=sns.load_dataset("tips")
tips.head()
sns.set_style("whitegrid")
sns.scatterplot(x=["A", "B", "C"], y=[10, 30, 23])
plt.show()

Output

The graph is as follows −

Example 2

We will see another style in this example. The dark is a style that can be set and the plot obtained will be like the one shown below.

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
tips=sns.load_dataset("tips")
tips.head()
sns.set_style("dark")
sns.scatterplot(x=["A", "B", "C"], y=[10, 30, 23])
plt.show()

Output

the output obtained is,

Example 3

In this example, we will see how the grid color and grid line style can be changed when setting the style. You have to initialize them like shown below and the graph obtained will change as shown.

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
tips=sns.load_dataset("tips")
tips.head()
sns.set_style("darkgrid", {"grid.color": ".2", "grid.linestyle": ":"})
sns.lineplot(x=["man", "women", "child"], y=[45, 50, 20])
plt.show()

Output

The output obtained is as follows −