How to change background color everywhere?

Question

I would like to change the color of the background for the whole plot (including axes, titles, legend etc). Actually there are no problems with making different the part of background that lies beyond the plot itself.

How can I do the same with the margins?

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All white areas on the picture should become gray.

possible duplicate of [Python - changing plot background color in matplotlib](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14088687/python-changing-plot-background-color-in-matplotlib) — Kirubaharan J, Nov 19 '14 at 09:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '14 at 12:20

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Guessing a bit (as you have posted no code), but this should do it

plt.clf()
fig=plt.gcf()
fig.patch.set_facecolor('white')
plt.plot(yourdata)

answered Nov 19 '14 at 12:20

Lee

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '14 at 01:51

Starting from scratch,

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure(facecolor='gray')
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, axisbg='gray')
ax.plot(<your data>)

You can set the shade of gray by passing floats between 0 and 1 as a 3-tuple instead of the string gray (e.g. (0.5, 0.5, 0.5)).

How to change background color everywhere?

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