[FIXED] Jupyter-notebook non-transparent plot surroundings when saving figure

Issue

I am using jupyter-lab for plotting a dataframe.

fig = df.plot().get_figure()
fig.savefig("test.png")

Unfortunately, the surroundings of the plot (the space that is not between the x and y axis), where the coordinates are displayed are transparent, meaning a checkered grey-black pattern, which makes the coordinates practically unreadable. Is there any way of widening the non-transparent area so that the coordinates are included?

Solution

There are a couple of ways that you can achieve this:

Update the matplotlib rcParams:

import matplotlib as mpl

mpl.rcParams.update({"figure.facecolor": "white"})

this will affect all the plots after you set this parameter in this script.

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Set the figure facecolor for a single figure:

fig = df.plot().get_figure()
fig.set_facecolor("white")

Answered By - Alex