``matplotlib.colors``

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matplotlib.colors

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.. note::

The Color :ref:tutorials <tutorials-colors> and :ref:examples <color_examples> demonstrate how to set colors and colormaps. You may want to read those instead.

.. currentmodule:: matplotlib.colors

.. automodule:: matplotlib.colors :no-members: :no-inherited-members:

Color norms

.. autosummary:: :toctree: _as_gen/ :template: autosummary.rst

Normalize NoNorm AsinhNorm BoundaryNorm CenteredNorm FuncNorm LogNorm PowerNorm SymLogNorm TwoSlopeNorm

Univariate Colormaps

.. autosummary:: :toctree: _as_gen/ :template: autosummary.rst

Colormap LinearSegmentedColormap ListedColormap

Multivariate Colormaps

.. autosummary:: :toctree: _as_gen/ :template: autosummary.rst

BivarColormap SegmentedBivarColormap BivarColormapFromImage

Other classes

.. autosummary:: :toctree: _as_gen/ :template: autosummary.rst

ColorSequenceRegistry LightSource

Functions

.. autosummary:: :toctree: _as_gen/ :template: autosummary.rst

from_levels_and_colors hsv_to_rgb rgb_to_hsv to_hex to_rgb to_rgba to_rgba_array is_color_like same_color get_named_colors_mapping make_norm_from_scale

Exported colors

The data used to populate the :doc:/gallery/color/named_colors are exposed as dictionaries that map color names to hex strings.

.. py:data:: BASE_COLORS

.. py:data:: TABLEAU_COLORS

.. py:data:: CSS4_COLORS

.. py:data:: XKCD_COLORS