How do you change the default font color for all text in matplotlib?

Question

This only changed it for chart titles, but left axis titles the default color:

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rcParams['text.color'] = 'blue'

Answer 1

You can set each text property separately, e.g.:

COLOR = 'blue'
mpl.rcParams['text.color'] = COLOR
mpl.rcParams['axes.labelcolor'] = COLOR
mpl.rcParams['xtick.color'] = COLOR
mpl.rcParams['ytick.color'] = COLOR

The full list of params is at https://matplotlib.org/users/customizing.html.

Answer 2

To set the label color in the rcParams as well use

text.color: blue
axes.labelcolor: blue

or, from within the script

mpl.rcParams.update({'text.color' : "blue",
                     'axes.labelcolor' : "blue"})