This is meant as a place to concentrate brainstorming suggestions on how to deal with styling matplotlib via rcParams

• Tony S. Yu's mpltools toolkit

• [Gallery of available mpltools styles] (http://tonysyu.github.io/mpltools/auto_examples/index.html)

• Olga Botvinnik's prettyplotlib

  • Gallery of prettyplotlib examples

Simple solution: drop mpltools into matplotlib, since it already implements style sheets!

• Javascript plugin for IPython notebook for interactively choosing between styles
• Database of user-contributed styles to import