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I am trying to make contour plot of a 20*20 matrix using the function ListContourPlot.

I want the contour curves to be thick and black at the same time.

So I tried 

ContourStyle -> [Black, Thick]

and

BaseStyle -> Thick, ContourStyle -> Thick

and many other ways.

However, all of them give me Thick and Gray curves.

Like this

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How can I make the contour curves as black as the frame lines?

Here is my data

data

Here is how I read in the data:

data = ReadList[".../2Dshape4t30.txt", Number, RecordLists -> True];

Here is the my code for plotting

ListContourPlot[data2d, Contours -> {0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.01, 0.001}, 
 InterpolationOrder -> 3, ContourShading -> None, 
 ContourLabels -> All, ContourStyle -> Directive[Black, Thick], 
 Axes -> False , FrameStyle -> Thick, FrameTicks -> None]
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    $\begingroup$ Please provide a complete example in your question so we can test any solutions. It looks like you are using square brackets instead of the required curly braces. But the solution may require more than simply changing the brackets. $\endgroup$
    – LouisB
    Oct 14, 2019 at 17:37
  • $\begingroup$ PlotTheme->"Monochrome" ? $\endgroup$
    – yarchik
    Oct 14, 2019 at 18:44
  • $\begingroup$ @LouisB Thank you for your comment! I have edited my question and added a concrete example. $\endgroup$
    – Jun Liu
    Oct 14, 2019 at 18:45
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    $\begingroup$ Then you need to add Opacity[1] to the ContourStyle. It is black but partially transparent by default. $\endgroup$
    – yarchik
    Oct 14, 2019 at 18:53
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    $\begingroup$ try ContourStyle -> Directive[Black, Thick] or ContourStyle -> Directive[Opacity[1],Black, Thick]? $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Oct 14, 2019 at 18:53

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data = Table[Sin[i  + j] Cos[i j], {i, -3, 3, 0.1}, {j, -3, 3, 0.1}];

ListContourPlot[data,
 Contours -> {0.05, -.75, .5, .95}, 
 Axes -> False , FrameStyle -> Thick, FrameTicks -> None, 
 InterpolationOrder -> 3, 
 ContourShading -> None, 
 ContourLabels -> All, 
 ContourStyle -> Directive[Black, Thick]]

enter image description here

You can

  1. add the option PlotTheme -> None or
  2. change the option ContourStyle to ContourStyle -> Directive[Opacity[1, Black], Thick]

to get

enter image description here

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