Adjust Figures#

Figure Size, Background Color, DPI, etc.#

Built-in parameters of matplotlib.pyplot.figure could be passed alone with Waffle as FigureClass and PyWaffle parameters. Some of them are commonly used to adjust figure, like figsize, dpi, facecolor, tight_layout, etc. Check matplotlib.pyplot.figure for the details.

In the following example, we change the background color of figure by passing color value to facecolor.

fig = plt.figure(
    FigureClass=Waffle,
    rows=5,
    values=[30, 16, 4],
    colors=["#232066", "#983D3D", "#DCB732"],
    facecolor='#DDDDDD'  # facecolor is a parameter of matplotlib.pyplot.figure
)

Adjust Figures - Change Background Color

Plot Location#

Use parameter plot_anchor to change the location of plot in the figure.

fig = plt.figure(
    FigureClass=Waffle,
    rows=5,
    values=[30, 16, 4],
    plot_anchor='S'
)
fig.set_facecolor('#DDDDDD')

Parameter tight controls whether tight_layout in matplotlib is called when drawing.

Tight Layout#

By default, PyWaffle sets the figure with tight layout. Thus, when showing the plot, the following warning might pop up:

UserWarning: This figure includes Axes that are not compatible with tight_layout, so its results might be incorrect

It is usually not an issue when saving the plot to a file, so it could ignored. If you still want to remove the moving, you can either suppress warnings through Python’s warnings module, or set PyWaffle parameter tight to False.