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 <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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    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xAoljeRJ3lU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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 <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, Michael Droettboom and Thomas Caswell
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')`).