Setting plot background colour in Seaborn

Question

I am using Seaborn to plot some data in Pandas.

I am making some very large plots (factorplots).

To see them, I am using some visualisation faciliti

Answer 1

seaborn.set takes and rc argument that accepts a dictionary of valid matplotlib rcparams. So we need to set two things: the axes.facecolor, which is the color of the area where the data are drawn, and the figure.facecolor, which is the everything a part of the figure outside of the axes object.

(edited with advice from @mwaskom)

So if you do:

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn
seaborn.set(rc={'axes.facecolor':'cornflowerblue', 'figure.facecolor':'cornflowerblue'})

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

You get:

And that'll work with your FacetGrid as well.