Histogram Bar Line Thickness

Question

This feels like it should be pretty simple but I am struggling. Does anyone know how to control the thickness of the lines of the bar in a histogram?

I tried playing with ChartStyle and BaseStyle but nothing seems to manipulate the line thickness of the bars.

Cheers!

EDIT:

Histogram[
{Table[n/n 0.0, {n, 1, 400}], Table[n/n 0.2, {n, 1, 137}], 
Table[n/n 0.4, {n, 1, 45}], Table[n/n 0.6, {n, 1, 13}], 
Table[n/n 0.8, {n, 1, 3}], Table[n/n 1.0, {n, 1, 1}], 
Table[n/n 1.2, {n, 1, 1}]},
ChartStyle -> White,
Evaluate[PlotStyles],
BaseStyle -> Thickness[0.0025],
ImagePadding -> {{60, 60}, {50, 5}}
];

Answer 1

Update 2: Based on the accepted answer it now seems that removing the bottom of edge of rectangles is not essential. In that case, the option ChartBaseStyle gives the desired result (there is no need for custom ChartElementFunctions):

Histogram[data, ChartBaseStyle -> EdgeForm[Thickness[.01]]]

Histogram[data, ChartStyle -> "Pastel", 
 ChartElementFunction -> "GlassRectangle", 
 ChartBaseStyle -> EdgeForm[{Opacity[1, Red], Thickness[.01]}]]

Update: The ChartElementFunction in the original post works only for the default setting for the option BarOrigin. The new function ceF2 works for arbitrary values for the BarOrigin option.

ceF2[cedf_: "GlassRectangle", o : OptionsPattern[]][col_: Black, thickness_: 3] := 
 Module[{or = Charting`ChartStyleInformation["BarOrigin"], ll = Tuples[#][[{1, 2, 4, 3}]]},
   ll = RotateRight[ll, Switch[or, Bottom, 0, Top, 2, Left, 3, Right, 1]] ;
   {ChartElementDataFunction[cedf, o][##], 
    col, AbsoluteThickness[thickness], CapForm["Butt"], Line[ll]}] &

Examples:

Grid[Partition[Histogram[data, ChartStyle -> 1, ImageSize -> 300, 
     PlotLabel -> Style["BarOrigin -> " <> ToString[#], 16, "Panel"], 
     ChartElementFunction -> ceF2["FadingRectangle", "GradientOrigin" -> Top][
       Dynamic[Darker@CurrentValue["Color"]], 5], 
     BarOrigin -> #] & /@ {Bottom, Top, Left, Right}, 2]]

Original post:

A more flexible chart element function that modifies built-in chart element functions to add thick lines:

ClearAll[ceF]
ceF[cedf_: "GlassRectangle", o : OptionsPattern[]][col_: Black, thickness_: 3] := 
  {ChartElementDataFunction[cedf, o][##], 
   col, AbsoluteThickness[thickness], CapForm["Butt"],
   Line[Tuples[#][[{1, 2, 4, 3}]]]} &

Examples:

SeedRandom[42];
data = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[0, 1], 200];

Histogram[data, ChartStyle -> 1, ChartElementFunction -> ceF[][]]

Histogram[data, ChartStyle -> 1, 
 ChartElementFunction -> 
  ceF["FadingRectangle"][Dynamic[Darker@Darker@CurrentValue["Color"]], 5]]

Histogram[data, ChartStyle -> 1, 
 ChartElementFunction -> 
  ceF["FadingRectangle", "GradientOrigin"->Top][Dynamic[Darker@CurrentValue["Color"]], 5]]

Histogram[data, 5, ChartStyle -> {Red, Green, Blue, Orange, Cyan, Purple}, 
 ChartElementFunction -> 
  ceF["FadingRectangle", "GradientOrigin"->Top][Dynamic[Darker@CurrentValue["Color"]], 5]]

Answer 2

You are looking to modify the EdgeForm of your ChartStyle, and this is shown in the documentation for Histogram, in the Options section.

SeedRandom[42];
data = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[0, 1], 200];
Histogram[data, 
 ChartStyle -> {EdgeForm[
    Directive[AbsoluteThickness[2], Black, Opacity[1]]]}]

Answer 3

The most direct and versatile way would be to generate your own chart elements. Fortunately, for rectangles this is quite easy:

data = RandomReal[{0, 100}, 1000];

Clear[thick]
thick[{{xmin_, xmax_}, {ymin_, ymax_}}, values_, metadata_] := 
   {EdgeForm[Thick], Rectangle[{xmin, ymin}, {xmax, ymax}]}

Histogram[data, ChartElementFunction -> thick]

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Once you decide to make your own primitives, you also gain some flexibility, e.g. by choosing to leave off the bottom edge of each bar, as requested in comments:

Clear[thickNoBottom]
thickNoBottom[{{xmin_, xmax_}, {ymin_, ymax_}}, values_, metadata_] := {
  {EdgeForm[None], Rectangle[{xmin, ymin}, {xmax, ymax}]},
  {Thickness[0.015], Black, CapForm["Butt"],
   Line[{{xmin, ymin}, {xmin, ymax}, {xmax, ymax}, {xmax, ymin}}]}
}

Histogram[data, ChartBaseStyle -> Thick, ChartElementFunction -> thickNoBottom]