Use Vega collection10 colors instead

mdboom · mdboom · commit d9724661157f · 2015-12-31T16:21:02.000-05:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py b/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py
@@ -998,8 +998,12 @@ def validate_hist_bins(s):
     # This entry can be either a cycler object or a
     # string repr of a cycler-object, which gets eval()'ed
     # to create the object.
-    'axes.prop_cycle': [ccycler('color', 'bgrcmyk'),
-                        validate_cycler],
+    'axes.prop_cycle': [
+        ccycler('color',
+                ['#1f77b4', '#ff7f0e', '#2ca02c', '#d62728',
+                 '#9467bd', '#8c564b', '#e377c2', '#7f7f7f',
+                 '#bcbd22', '#17becf']),
+        validate_cycler],
     # If 'data', axes limits are set close to the data.
     # If 'round_numbers' axes limits are set to the nearest round numbers.
     'axes.autolimit_mode': [
diff --git a/matplotlibrc.template b/matplotlibrc.template
@@ -315,7 +315,10 @@ backend      : %(backend)s
 #axes.unicode_minus  : True    # use unicode for the minus symbol
                                # rather than hyphen.  See
                                # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_and_minus_signs#Character_codes
-#axes.prop_cycle    : cycler('color', 'bgrcmyk')
+#axes.prop_cycle    : cycler('color',
+#                            ['#1f77b4', '#ff7f0e', '#2ca02c', '#d62728',
+                              '#9467bd', '#8c564b', '#e377c2', '#7f7f7f',
+                              '#bcbd22', '#17becf'])
                                             # color cycle for plot lines
                                             # as list of string colorspecs:
                                             # single letter, long name, or
