Seaborn Themes and Styles

Seaborn provides a powerful styling system that makes it easy to create professional-looking visualizations with minimal effort.

The Five Built-in Styles

Context Scaling

Color Palettes in Depth

Custom Color Palettes

Styling Specific Elements

Complete Styling Example

Despine for Clean Look

Practice: Create a Themed Dashboard

Key Takeaways

• Use sns.set_style() for visual appearance (whitegrid, darkgrid, etc.)
• Use sns.set_context() for scaling (paper, notebook, talk, poster)
• Use sns.set_palette() for color schemes
• sns.set_theme() combines style, palette, and context in one call
• sns.despine() removes spines for a cleaner look
• Use with sns.axes_style() for temporary style changes
• Qualitative palettes for categories, sequential for ordered data
• Diverging palettes for data with a meaningful center

In the next lesson, we'll explore Seaborn's categorical plot functions.