John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> John, the relevant code to define the "colors" attribute seems to be >> written by you. Maybe this is some matlab convention? Can you comment >> on this? > > The original color letters did come from matlab, and some of the color > RGB choices, like the background for the subplot gray, I got using a > color picker on my screen for maximum compatibility, but I do not > recall if that was the case for 'm', 'c' and 'y'. Most likely these > were the rgb values of the matlab colors. > > The html colors were submitted later by another user, and apparently > we never checked for consistency. I think this is a wart, and I > don't feel strongly about keeping it or changing it for consistency in > the trunk ahead of 1.0 (it should remain as is on the branch). If we > change it on the trunk, we should change the single letter codes to > correspond to the html full color name standards, rather than the > other way around.
I would be cautious about making this change. At least on my laptop screen, with the default white axes background, the single-letter colors show up better than the html versions. It makes sense to me for the single-letter colors to be chosen for good visibility and contrast in actual use, not for consistency with the html names. In fact, I see no good argument for consistency in this case. Eric > > JDH > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
