matlab colors seem to follow html : http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/colorspec.html I would agree that "yellow" is not very readable at all. Could possibly the short-hand colors be made user configurable in .matplotlibrc to suit individual taste ?
In any case, this issue needs to be mentioned in the documentation. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > 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 -- thanks, peter butterworth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
