# the axes attributes need to be set before the call to subplot plt.rc('font', weight='bold') plt.rc('xtick.major', size=5, pad=7) plt.rc('xtick', labelsize=15)
# using aliases for color, linestyle and linewidth; gray, solid, thick plt.rc('grid', c='0.5', ls='-', lw=5) plt.rc('lines', lw=2, color='g') plt.subplot(312)