Default tick colors to the axes spine color

trananso · trananso · commit 189f44c40a7f · 2024-05-13T16:35:42.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axis.py b/lib/matplotlib/axis.py
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ def __init__(
         if color is None:
             color = mpl.rcParams[f"{name}.color"]
 
+        if cbook._str_equal(color, 'auto'):
+            color = mpl.rcParams["axes.edgecolor"]
+
         if pad is None:
             pad = mpl.rcParams[f"{name}.{major_minor}.pad"]
         self._base_pad = pad
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
 #xtick.minor.width:   0.6     # minor tick width in points
 #xtick.major.pad:     3.5     # distance to major tick label in points
 #xtick.minor.pad:     3.4     # distance to the minor tick label in points
-#xtick.color:         black   # color of the ticks
+#xtick.color:         auto    # color of the ticks
 #xtick.labelcolor:    auto    # color of the tick labels or default to text.color
 #xtick.labelsize:     medium  # font size of the tick labels
 #xtick.direction:     out     # direction: {in, out, inout}
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@
 #ytick.minor.width:   0.6     # minor tick width in points
 #ytick.major.pad:     3.5     # distance to major tick label in points
 #ytick.minor.pad:     3.4     # distance to the minor tick label in points
-#ytick.color:         black   # color of the ticks
+#ytick.color:         auto    # color of the ticks
 #ytick.labelcolor:    auto    # color of the tick labels or default to text.color
 #ytick.labelsize:     medium  # font size of the tick labels
 #ytick.direction:     out     # direction: {in, out, inout}
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py b/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ def _convert_validator_spec(key, conv):
     "xtick.minor.width":   validate_float,     # minor xtick width in points
     "xtick.major.pad":     validate_float,     # distance to label in points
     "xtick.minor.pad":     validate_float,     # distance to label in points
-    "xtick.color":         validate_color,     # color of xticks
+    "xtick.color":         validate_color_or_auto,     # color of xticks
     "xtick.labelcolor":    validate_color_inherit_or_auto,  # color of xtick labels
     "xtick.minor.visible": validate_bool,      # visibility of minor xticks
     "xtick.minor.top":     validate_bool,      # draw top minor xticks
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ def _convert_validator_spec(key, conv):
     "ytick.minor.width":   validate_float,     # minor ytick width in points
     "ytick.major.pad":     validate_float,     # distance to label in points
     "ytick.minor.pad":     validate_float,     # distance to label in points
-    "ytick.color":         validate_color,     # color of yticks
+    "ytick.color":         validate_color_or_auto,     # color of yticks
     "ytick.labelcolor":    validate_color_inherit_or_auto,  # color of ytick labels
     "ytick.minor.visible": validate_bool,      # visibility of minor yticks
     "ytick.minor.left":    validate_bool,      # draw left minor yticks
