How to set default style for arrow tips in tikz?

Question

I am creating multiple tikz pictures within one document and would like to set the default style of arrow heads for all the pictures to the "latex" style, i.e. like -latex does, so that I don't have to do this every time I draw an arrow.

I'm new to tikz, but have searched and must not be choosing the correct terms.

Answer 1

You can use >=latex to specify arrow tips, and \tikzset so set it globally. This will be overridden by any local definitions of the arrow tip.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{>=latex}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [->] (0,0) -- +(1,0);
\draw [->,blue] (0,.3) -- +(1,0);
\draw [->,>=stealth,red] (0,.6) -- +(1,0);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}