Add white templates with axes lines, tickmarks, and different color rotation

Would you consider adding two templates with axis lines, tickmarks, and white background (similar to “xticks” in seaborn)? I believe this is a rather common style in various plotting libraries that also looks good in print and it would be nice to have it easily accessible, especially when teaching so that custom templates need not to be explained early on.

To illustrate what I mean

And with gridlines

I also changed the color rotations to D3, viridis, and RdBu, which are common defaults elsewhere. Below is the code I used to create the first figure, it is not complete with the figure specific template properties that are in the other default templates but gives an idea of what I am referring to.

go.layout.Template(
    layout=go.Layout(
        hovermode='closest',
        hoverlabel_align='left',
        plot_bgcolor='white',
        paper_bgcolor='white',
        font_size=13,
        xaxis=dict(showline=True, ticks='outside', showgrid=False,
                   linewidth=1.5, zeroline=False),
        yaxis=dict(showline=True, ticks='outside', showgrid=False,
                   linewidth=1.5, zeroline=False),
        colorway=px.colors.qualitative.D3,
        colorscale=dict(sequential=px.colors.sequential.Viridis,
                        diverging=px.colors.diverging.RdBu), 
    )
)

[nicolaskruchten]

Heads-up: 4.3 is coming out this week! Last call for PRs for this release is getting close 😉

[nicolaskruchten]

background of the hover popup in white for all marker instead of the same color as the marker, but I haven’t gotten there yet.

That’s pretty easy, there’s an attribute for that in the layout

Eventually, I think it would be helpful if the subplot column titles and legend could have the species= part removed via the template

that’s not going to be possible at all via layout.template as it’s not something that maps to a single figure attribute, although it seems to be a popular enough request that we may end up just adding an additional kwarg for that to all PX methods, or a PX-level overrideable default or something.