Seaborn 中的黑白箱线图

Question

I am trying to draw multiple black-and-white boxplots using Python's Seaborn package. By default the plots are using a color palette. I would like to draw them in solid black outline. The best I can come up with is:

# figure styles
sns.set_style('white')
sns.set_context('paper', font_scale=2)
plt.figure(figsize=(3, 5))
sns.set_style('ticks', {'axes.edgecolor': '0',  
                        'xtick.color': '0',
                        'ytick.color': '0'})

ax = sns.boxplot(x="test1", y="test2", data=dataset, color='white', width=.5)
sns.despine(offset=5, trim=True)
sns.plt.show()

Which produces something like:

I would like the box outlines to be black without any fill or changes in the color palette.

Answer 1

You have to set edgecolor of every boxes and the use set_color for six lines (whiskers and median) associated with every box:

ax = sns.boxplot(x="day", y="total_bill", data=tips, color='white', width=.5, fliersize=0)

# iterate over boxes
for i,box in enumerate(ax.artists):
    box.set_edgecolor('black')
    box.set_facecolor('white')

    # iterate over whiskers and median lines
    for j in range(6*i,6*(i+1)):
         ax.lines[j].set_color('black')

If last cycle is applied for all artists and lines then it may be reduced to:

plt.setp(ax.artists, edgecolor = 'k', facecolor='w')
plt.setp(ax.lines, color='k')

where ax according to boxplot .

If you also need to set fliers' color follow this answer .

Answer 2

I was just exploring this and it seems there is another way to do this now. Basically, there are the keywords boxprops , medianprops , whiskerprops and (you guessed it) capprops , all of which are dictionaries that may be passed to the boxplot func. I choose to define them above and then unpack them for readability:

PROPS = {
    'boxprops':{'facecolor':'none', 'edgecolor':'red'},
    'medianprops':{'color':'green'},
    'whiskerprops':{'color':'blue'},
    'capprops':{'color':'yellow'}
}

sns.boxplot(x='variable',y='value',
            data=_to_plot,
            showfliers=False,
            linewidth=0.75, 
            **PROPS)