Default Style Changes

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Colormap

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``matplotlib`` is changing the default colormap and styles in the

upcoming 2.0 release!

The new default color map will be 'viridis' (aka `option

D <http://bids.github.io/colormap/>`_). For an introduction to color

theory and how 'viridis' was generated watch Nathaniel Smith and

Stéfan van der Walt's talk from SciPy2015

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All four color maps will be included in matplotlib 1.5.

Everything Else

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We are soliciting proposals to change any and all visual defaults

(including adding new rcParams as needed).

If you have a proposal please create an issue or PR on `github <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/new>`_ with the

changes to `rcsetup.py` and `matplotlibrc.template` by August 9, 2015.

In the second week of August, Micheal Droettboom and I will decide on

the new default styles, with the release of 2.0 by the beginning of

September 2015.

A 'classic' style sheet will be provided so reverting to the 1.x

default values will be a single line of python

(`mpl.style.use('classic')`).