diff --git a/doc/users/whats_new.rst b/doc/users/whats_new.rst
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--- a/doc/users/whats_new.rst
+++ b/doc/users/whats_new.rst
@@ -161,7 +161,14 @@ New style colorblind-friendly color cycle
 
 A new style defining a color cycle has been added,
 tableau-colorblind10, to provide another option for
-colorblind-friendly plots.
+colorblind-friendly plots.  A demonstration of this new
+style can be found in the reference_ of style sheets. To
+load this color cycle in place of the default one::
+
+  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+  plt.style.use('tableau-colorblind10')
+
+.. _reference: https://matplotlib.org/gallery/style_sheets/style_sheets_reference.html
 
 
 Support for numpy.datetime64