Changing the look of your Jupyter workspace!

There are many software presents to code in python, Jupyter Notebook being one. Project Jupyter is a project and community whose goal is to “develop open-source software, open-standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages”. It was spun off from IPython in 2014 by Fernando Pérez and Brian Granger.

Working on the same software can become dullsville, even if the software is amazing, a change of look is needed after some time. For many platforms, the change option is present directly on the menu or some extensions need to be downloaded.

In the case of Jupyter Notebook, code needs to be written for the change. Jupyter provides its users with profuse font and background color options.

Some available themes being -

Available Themes: 
   chesterish
   grade3
   gruvboxd
   gruvboxl
   monokai
   oceans16
   onedork
   solarizedd
   solarizedl

Command to bring about this change is

To change the font size and font style along with the theme, type the following command -

Some of the available fonts in jupyter notebook are —

1. Roboto
2. Fira
3. Merriserif

To bring about these changes, install the library ‘jupyterthemes’ into your kernel.

Upgrade the package then -

By default, the theme hides the toolbar and notebook’s name. But you can toggle it with the below command:

Now you can bring about all the appearance changes you need for the notebook.

Complete code can be found on my GitHub profile.

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