# Why Plots.jl produce figures looks not as good as other packages even with pyplot

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** plotting, plots\
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-plots-jl-produce-figures-looks-not-as-good-as-other-packages-even-with-pyplot/74946 "2022-01-20T16:27:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![aplavin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aplavin/32/222056_2.png) [@aplavin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aplavin)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-plots-jl-produce-figures-looks-not-as-good-as-other-packages-even-with-pyplot/74946/15 "2022-01-20T20:53:52Z")

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I agree with some points - eg the legend autoplacement in Plots.jl can indeed be improved to avoid lines. But at least some of those differences are definitely a matter of preferences. For example I always put grids on my plots, and have the corresponding option set in matplotlib config.

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