diff --git a/examples/showcase/bachelors_degrees_by_gender.py b/examples/showcase/bachelors_degrees_by_gender.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9b62e90d7fd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/showcase/bachelors_degrees_by_gender.py
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+from matplotlib.mlab import csv2rec
+from matplotlib.cbook import get_sample_data
+
+# Activate the Tableau 20 and clean styling.
+# This call does most of the styling for you.
+plt.style.use(["clean", "tableau_20colors"])
+
+fname = get_sample_data("percent_bachelors_degrees_women_usa.csv")
+gender_degree_data = csv2rec(fname)
+
+# You typically want your plot to be ~1.33x wider than tall. This plot
+# is a rare exception because of the number of lines being plotted on it.
+# Common sizes: (10, 7.5) and (12, 9)
+plt.figure(figsize=(12, 14))
+
+# Limit the range of the plot to only where the data is.
+# Avoid unnecessary whitespace.
+plt.xlim(1970, 2010.1)
+plt.ylim(-0.25, 90)
+
+# Make sure your axis ticks are large enough to be easily read.
+# You don't want your viewers squinting to read your plot.
+plt.xticks(range(1970, 2011, 10))
+plt.yticks(range(0, 91, 10), [str(x) + "%" for x in range(0, 91, 10)])
+
+# Now that the plot is prepared, it's time to actually plot the data!
+# Note that I plotted the majors in order of the highest % in the final year.
+majors = ["Health Professions", "Public Administration", "Education",
+          "Psychology", "Foreign Languages", "English",
+          "Communications\nand Journalism", "Art and Performance", "Biology",
+          "Agriculture", "Social Sciences and History", "Business",
+          "Math and Statistics", "Architecture", "Physical Sciences",
+          "Computer Science", "Engineering"]
+
+y_offsets = {"Foreign Languages": 0.5, "English": -0.5,
+             "Communications\nand Journalism": 0.75,
+             "Art and Performance": -0.25, "Agriculture": 1.25,
+             "Social Sciences and History": 0.25, "Business": -0.75,
+             "Math and Statistics": 0.75, "Architecture": -0.75,
+             "Computer Science": 0.75, "Engineering": -0.25}
+
+for rank, column in enumerate(majors):
+    # Plot each line separately with its own color, using the Tableau 20
+    # color set in order.
+    column_rec_name = column.replace("\n", "_").replace(" ", "_").lower()
+
+    line = plt.plot(gender_degree_data.year,
+                    gender_degree_data[column_rec_name])
+
+    line_color = line[0].get_color()
+
+    # Add a text label to the right end of every line. Most of the code below
+    # is adding specific offsets y position because some labels overlapped.
+    y_pos = gender_degree_data[column_rec_name][-1] - 0.5
+
+    if column in y_offsets:
+        y_pos += y_offsets[column]
+
+    # Again, make sure that all labels are large enough to be easily read
+    # by the viewer.
+    plt.text(2010.5, y_pos, column, color=line_color)
+
+# matplotlib's title() call centers the title on the plot, but not the graph,
+# so I used the text() call to customize where the title goes.
+
+# Make the title big enough so it spans the entire plot, but don"t make it
+# so big that it requires two lines to show.
+
+# Note that if the title is descriptive enough, it is unnecessary to include
+# axis labels; they are self-evident, in this plot's case.
+plt.text(1995, 92, "Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women in "
+         "the U.S.A. by major (1970-2010)", fontsize=17, ha="center")
+
+# Finally, save the figure as a PNG.
+# You can also save it as a PDF, JPEG, etc.
+# Just change the file extension in this call.
+plt.savefig("percent-bachelors-degrees-women-usa.png")
diff --git a/examples/style_sheets/plot_clean.py b/examples/style_sheets/plot_clean.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..21add2a436f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/style_sheets/plot_clean.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+"""
+This shows an example of the "clean" styling.
+"""
+
+
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+import numpy as np
+
+x = np.linspace(0, 10)
+
+with plt.style.context('clean'):
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 0.5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 2 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 3 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 4 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+
+plt.show()
diff --git a/examples/style_sheets/plot_colorblind_10colors.py b/examples/style_sheets/plot_colorblind_10colors.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4add70dceb56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/style_sheets/plot_colorblind_10colors.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+"""
+This shows an example of the "colorblind_10colors" styling,
+which  uses Tableau's "Color Blind 10" color scheme.
+"""
+
+
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+import numpy as np
+
+x = np.linspace(0, 10)
+
+with plt.style.context('colorblind_10colors'):
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 0.5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 2 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 3 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 4 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+
+plt.show()
diff --git a/examples/style_sheets/plot_tableau_10colors.py b/examples/style_sheets/plot_tableau_10colors.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..89d93d678526
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/style_sheets/plot_tableau_10colors.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+"""
+This shows an example of the "tableau_10colors" styling,
+which uses Tableau's "Tableau 10" color scheme.
+"""
+
+
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+import numpy as np
+
+x = np.linspace(0, 10)
+
+with plt.style.context('tableau_10colors'):
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 0.5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 2 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 3 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 4 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+
+plt.show()
diff --git a/examples/style_sheets/plot_tableau_20colors.py b/examples/style_sheets/plot_tableau_20colors.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..597d56dbf323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/style_sheets/plot_tableau_20colors.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+"""
+This shows an example of the "tableau_20colors" styling,
+which uses Tableau's "Tableau 20" color scheme.
+"""
+
+
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+import numpy as np
+
+x = np.linspace(0, 10)
+
+with plt.style.context('tableau_20colors'):
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 0.5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 2 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 3 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 4 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+    plt.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
+
+plt.show()
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/sample_data/percent_bachelors_degrees_women_usa.csv b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/sample_data/percent_bachelors_degrees_women_usa.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1e488d0233d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/sample_data/percent_bachelors_degrees_women_usa.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Year,Agriculture,Architecture,Art and Performance,Biology,Business,Communications and Journalism,Computer Science,Education,Engineering,English,Foreign Languages,Health Professions,Math and Statistics,Physical Sciences,Psychology,Public Administration,Social Sciences and History
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diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/clean.mplstyle b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/clean.mplstyle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..13ec99bbc012
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/clean.mplstyle
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Author: Randal S. Olson (randalolson.com / @randal_olson)
+# Produces a clean plotting template with default matplotlib colors.
+
+figure.edgecolor: white
+figure.facecolor: white
+
+lines.linewidth: 2.5
+lines.markeredgewidth: 0
+lines.markersize: 10
+lines.dash_capstyle: butt
+
+legend.fancybox: True
+
+font.size: 14
+
+axes.linewidth: 0
+axes.titlesize: 22
+axes.labelsize: 16
+
+xtick.labelsize: 14
+ytick.labelsize: 14
+xtick.major.size: 0
+xtick.minor.size: 0
+ytick.major.size: 0
+ytick.minor.size: 0
+
+axes.grid: True
+grid.alpha: 0.3
+grid.linewidth: 0.5
+grid.linestyle: --
+grid.color: black
+
+savefig.transparent: False
+savefig.bbox: tight
+savefig.format: png
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/colorblind_10colors.mplstyle b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/colorblind_10colors.mplstyle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eae3cb39af17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/colorblind_10colors.mplstyle
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Author: Randal S. Olson (randalolson.com / @randal_olson)
+# Uses Tableau's Color Blind 10 color scheme
+
+axes.color_cycle: 006ba4, ff800e, ababab, 595959, 5f9ed1, c85200, 898989, a2c8ec, ffbc79, cfcfcf
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/tableau_10colors.mplstyle b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/tableau_10colors.mplstyle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..61cc36a35651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/tableau_10colors.mplstyle
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Author: Randal S. Olson (randalolson.com / @randal_olson)
+# Uses Tableau's Tableau 10 color scheme
+
+axes.color_cycle: 1f77b4, ff7f0e, 2ca02c, d62728, 9467bd, 8c564b, e377c2, 7f7f7f, bcbd22, 17becf
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/tableau_20colors.mplstyle b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/tableau_20colors.mplstyle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c9a8d47f7a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib/tableau_20colors.mplstyle
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Author: Randal S. Olson (randalolson.com / @randal_olson)
+# Uses Tableau's Tableau 20 color scheme
+
+axes.color_cycle: 1f77b4, aec7e8, ff7f0e, ffbb78, 2ca02c, 98df8a, d62728, ff9896, 9467bd, c5b0d5, 8c564b, c49c94, e377c2, f7b6d2, 7f7f7f, c7c7c7, bcbd22, dbdb8d, 17becf, 9edae5