matplotlib.pyplot.colors figure

matplotlib.pyplot.colors

1. use single letter

Alias	Color
‘b’	blue
‘g’	green
‘r’	red
‘c’	cyan
‘m’	magenta
‘y’	yellow
‘k’	black
‘w’	white

2. use an html hex string

For a greater range of colors, you have two options. You can specify the color using an html hex string, as in:

color = '#eeefff'

3. use RGB tuple

or you can pass an R,G,B tuple, where each of R,G,B are in the range [0,1].

You can also use any legal html name for a color, for example:

color = 'red'
color = 'burlywood'
color = 'chartreuse'

The example below creates a subplot with a dark slate gray background:

subplot(111, facecolor=(0.1843, 0.3098, 0.3098))

Here is an example that creates a pale turquoise title:

title('Is this the best color?', color='#afeeee')