Common Palette Guideline

Seaborn provides a wide range of color palettes that you can use with the palette parameter in sns.countplot() or other Seaborn plots. Here is a breakdown of the options:

🎨 Seaborn Styling & Aesthetic Controls

Seaborn provides powerful options to control the look and feel of plots using global settings. These affect font size, background, gridlines, colors, context, and more.

1. Set Font Size

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sns.set(font_scale=1.25)

• 🔹 font_scale adjusts the size of all text elements in a Seaborn plot:
• Axis labels
• Tick labels
• Legend text
• Titles (if using plt.title() or ax.set_title())

🧠 Tip: Use font_scale to scale fonts globally rather than adjusting each element manually.

2. Set Background Style

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sns.set_style('darkgrid')

Available styles:

• 'white': Plain background with no grid.
• 'whitegrid': White background with gridlines.
• 'dark': Dark background, no grid.
• 'darkgrid': Dark background with gridlines (default when plotting).
• 'ticks': Adds ticks on axes; minimal style.

📌 Use sns.set_style(style_name) to change background aesthetics.

3. Set Overall Context

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sns.set_context('notebook')

The context affects the scaling of plot elements based on the setting’s purpose.

Available options:

• 'paper': Smallest size (good for print).
• 'notebook': Medium (default).
• 'talk': Larger (for presentations).
• 'poster': Largest (for posters or large screens).

You can combine with font scaling:

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sns.set_context('talk', font_scale=1.25)

4. Set Global Aesthetic Settings at Once

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sns.set(
    style='darkgrid',      # Background style
    context='notebook',    # Scaling context
    font_scale=1.25        # Font size
)

🧠 This is a one-liner to configure all the key aesthetics.

5. Despine Plots

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sns.despine()

Removes the top and right borders (spines) for a cleaner look.

You can also control which spines to remove:

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sns.despine(left=True, bottom=True)

6. Color Palette

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sns.set_palette('Set2')  # Choose color set

Common palettes:

• 'deep' (default)
• 'muted'
• 'bright'
• 'pastel'
• 'dark'
• 'colorblind'
• Or define your own: sns.set_palette(['#E24A33', '#348ABD'])

To preview:

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sns.color_palette('Set2')

7. Style Dictionaries for Custom Use

Each style (darkgrid, whitegrid, etc.) corresponds to a dictionary:

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sns.axes_style('whitegrid')

Returns a dictionary of parameters you can tweak directly.

You can also use:

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with sns.axes_style('ticks'):
    sns.lineplot(...)

This applies the style only inside the with block.

8. Reset to Default Settings

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sns.reset_defaults()

Returns Seaborn's settings to the library defaults.

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