matplotlib.pyplot.colors

matplotlib.pyplot.colors()

Deprecated since version 2.1: The colors function was deprecated in version 2.1.

This is a do-nothing function to provide you with help on how matplotlib handles colors.

Commands which take color arguments can use several formats to specify the colors. For the basic built-in colors, you can use a single letter

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

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

color = '#eeefff'

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')