Default Style Changes ===================== Colormap -------- ``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 `_). For an introduction to color theory and how 'viridis' was generated watch Nathaniel Smith and SteĢfan van der Walt's talk from SciPy2015 .. raw:: html All four color maps will be included in matplotlib 1.5. Everything Else --------------- 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 `_ 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')`).