<div dir="ltr">It is also documented at <a href="http://matplotlib.org/2.0.0rc2/users/colors.html">http://matplotlib.org/2.0.0rc2/users/colors.html</a> which is too verbose to put into the docstring of every method (almost all of them) that takes in a color-like input.<div><br></div><div>Additionally, we will be adding alias to access the color by name for 2.0 final (see <a href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/7639">https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/7639</a> )</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:14 PM Michael Kaufman <<a href="mailto:kaufmanmc@ornl.gov">kaufmanmc@ornl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sure, but since I'm using a version of mpl that supports 'CN' color<br class="gmail_msg">
designations, it ought to at least be in documentation that's accessible<br class="gmail_msg">
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On 1/10/17 1:10 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> This feature will be in the upcoming 2.0 release. It isn't in the 1.5.x<br class="gmail_msg">
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> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Ilya Flyamer <<a href="mailto:flyamer@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">flyamer@gmail.com</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:flyamer@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">flyamer@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Hi Michael,<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I think the new colours can be used as 'C0', 'C1', etc, if that helps?<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Ilya<br class="gmail_msg">
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> 2017-01-10 17:57 GMT+00:00 Michael Kaufman <<a href="mailto:kaufmanmc@ornl.gov" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">kaufmanmc@ornl.gov</a><br class="gmail_msg">
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:kaufmanmc@ornl.gov" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">kaufmanmc@ornl.gov</a>>>:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Hi All,<br class="gmail_msg">
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> With the new color cycle, it's no longer super easy for me to<br class="gmail_msg">
> manually set plotting colors (that still conform to the new<br class="gmail_msg">
> default colors) without a cheat sheet.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Recently I've been doing:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> to get the list. This is something that I cannot remember and<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Is there an easier way to access this list? Something like:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> from matplotlib.colors import color_cycle<br class="gmail_msg">
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