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<h1>Default Style Changes<a class="headerlink" href="#default-style-changes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>

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<h2>Colormap<a class="headerlink" href="#colormap" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="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 &#8216;viridis&#8217; (aka <a class="reference external" href="http://bids.github.io/colormap/">option

D</a>). For an introduction to color

theory and how &#8216;viridis&#8217; was generated watch Nathaniel Smith and

Stéfan van der Walt&#8217;s talk from SciPy2015</p>

<iframe width="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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<h2>Everything Else<a class="headerlink" href="#everything-else" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>We have collected proposals to change any and all visual defaults

(including adding new rcParams as needed).</p>

<p>Michael Droettboom and Thomas Caswell will decide on the new default

styles to appear in the upcoming 2.0 release.</p>

<p>A &#8216;classic&#8217; style sheet will be provided so reverting to the 1.x

default values will be a single line of python

(<code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">mpl.style.use('classic')</span></code>).</p>

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