Style Profiles

Style profiles let you save a figure’s styling and reapply it to other figures with one click.

Where profiles are stored

Profiles are saved as JSON files in ~/.matplotly/profiles/. Each profile is a separate file named after the profile (e.g. journal_style.json).

Saving a profile

Style your figure in the editor (manually or via AI extraction).
Scroll to the Profiles section at the bottom of the sidebar.
Enter a name and click Save.
Optionally click Download to get a copy of the JSON file.

Loading a profile

Open any figure in the editor.
In the Profiles section, select a saved profile from the dropdown.
The profile’s settings are applied to the figure immediately.

What a profile contains

A profile captures the global settings from the editor’s Global panel:

Font family, title / label / tick font sizes, bold flags
Title, x-label, and y-label padding
Spine visibility (top, right, bottom, left) and width
Tick direction, length, width, and spacing
Axis scales (linear / log)
Grid settings (on/off, alpha, width, style)
Legend settings (show, frame, font size, position, columns)
Colormap selection

Per-series properties (individual colors, markers, etc.) are not included in profiles — they depend on the specific plot being edited.

Profile JSON format

A profile is a flat JSON object. Here is an abbreviated example:

{
  "font_family": "Arial",
  "title_size": 14,
  "label_size": 12,
  "tick_size": 10,
  "title_bold": false,
  "label_bold": false,
  "spine_top": false,
  "spine_right": false,
  "spine_bottom": true,
  "spine_left": true,
  "spine_width": 1.0,
  "tick_direction": "out",
  "tick_length": 5,
  "tick_width": 1.0,
  "grid_on": false,
  "legend_show": true,
  "legend_frame": false,
  "legend_fontsize": 10,
  "legend_position": "best",
  "colormap": "tab10"
}