Changing the default colors and style of matplotlib has proven to be a much larger task than initially thought, but we are finally approaching the release.
For the full details of what has been changed see a draft of the release notes.
The current pre-release is v2.0.0rc2
You can install pre-releases via
pip install --pre matplotlib
which has source + wheels for Mac, Win, and manylinux or
using
conda install -c conda-forge/label/rc -c conda-forge matplotlib
which has binaries for Mac, Win, and linux. You can also install from
source
from
git
git clone https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git
cd matplotlib
git checkout v2.0.0rc2
or tarball
wget https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archive/v2.0.0rc2.tar.gz -O matplotlib-v2.0.0rc2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf matplotlib-v2.0.0rc2.tar.gz
cd matplotlib-v2.0.0rc2
via
pip install -v .