Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-23 Thread Damon McDougall
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 05:50:41AM +0200, klo uo wrote: Thanks for your reply Ben, On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: As for the assertion that HTML colors aren't used, that is incorrect. The named colors follow the HTML list. Here is our list:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, klo uo klo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I read previous mail about colormaps which reminded me to a question I had about MPL colors. Colors in MPL plots are dark, and pale, and not is some specific color theme but it's just pale dark. I thought that usually

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-22 Thread klo uo
Thanks for your reply Ben, On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: As for the assertion that HTML colors aren't used, that is incorrect. The named colors follow the HTML list. Here is our list: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/colors.py#L62

[Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-21 Thread klo uo
Hi, I read previous mail about colormaps which reminded me to a question I had about MPL colors. Colors in MPL plots are dark, and pale, and not is some specific color theme but it's just pale dark. I thought that usually people make plots brighter (as more attractive ;) ) If you can, have a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-21 Thread Felix Patzelt
Have you ever been in a talk where someone uses 100% green on a slide? The result is usually that no one can see what is shown unless it is a really large green area. Green should be dark and not (0, 255, 0)! The same applies to cyan and yellow. Were the colors like you want them, they would be