In this repository, you find several notebooks demonstrating how to use different features of matplotlib. Since I was heavily using matplotlib in my PhD thesis and avoided to manipulate the plots in inkscape, the examples are closely related to what I was plotting during my PhD. If you find any errors or want to add something, please write an Issue or Pull Request.
You can create and use your own stylesheet to set different default parameters (figure size, etc) and have different stylesheets i.e. for papers, presentations and your thesis.
If you want to arange multiple plots in one figure, you find some examples here.
Multiple axes, nonlinear axes and plotting against date/time, this is what you find here.
Some hints about how to make colorplots.
Please don't make insets with inkscape.