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<h1>Default Style Changes<aclass="headerlink" href="#default-style-changes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Colormap<aclass="headerlink" href="#colormap" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><codeclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">matplotlib</span></code> is changing the default colormap and styles in the
upcoming 2.0 release!</p>
<p>The new default color map will be ‘viridis’ (aka <aclass="reference external" href="http://bids.github.io/colormap/">option
D</a>). For an introduction to color
theory and how ‘viridis’ was generated watch Nathaniel Smith and
Stéfan van der Walt’s talk from SciPy2015</p>
<iframewidth="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xAoljeRJ3lU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><p>All four color maps will be included in matplotlib 1.5.</p>
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<divclass="section" id="everything-else">
<h2>Everything Else<aclass="headerlink" href="#everything-else" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>We are soliciting proposals to change any and all visual defaults
(including adding new rcParams as needed).</p>
<p>If you have a proposal please create an issue or PR on <aclass="reference external" href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/new">github</a> with the
changes to <codeclass="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">rcsetup.py</span></code> and <codeclass="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">matplotlibrc.template</span></code> by August 9, 2015.</p>
<p>In the second week of August, Michael Droettboom and Thomas Caswell
will decide on the new default styles, with the release of 2.0 by the
beginning of September 2015.</p>
<p>A ‘classic’ style sheet will be provided so reverting to the 1.x