[Twinklebear]

A cool feature I recently learned about of matplotlib is that it supports LaTeX for text rendering [1]. You can go as far as rendering LaTeX math formatting for titles/labels, or just have the plot fonts match your text and/or figure captions so it fits nicely into your paper.

[1] http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html

[rajasinghe]

I've recently started using this option in gnuplot using the epslatex terminal [1]. Makes for very attractive plots and is relatively simple to use. For those looking for a Matplotlib alternative, I highly recommend it.

[1] http://www.gnuplotting.org/output-terminals/