.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/color/color_cycle_default.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_color_color_cycle_default.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_color_color_cycle_default.py:


====================================
Colors in the default property cycle
====================================

Display the colors from the default prop_cycle, which is obtained from the
:ref:`rc parameters<customizing>`.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 9-42

.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    prop_cycle = plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle']
    colors = prop_cycle.by_key()['color']

    lwbase = plt.rcParams['lines.linewidth']
    thin = lwbase / 2
    thick = lwbase * 3

    fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2, sharex=True, sharey=True)
    for icol in range(2):
        if icol == 0:
            lwx, lwy = thin, lwbase
        else:
            lwx, lwy = lwbase, thick
        for irow in range(2):
            for i, color in enumerate(colors):
                axs[irow, icol].axhline(i, color=color, lw=lwx)
                axs[irow, icol].axvline(i, color=color, lw=lwy)

        axs[1, icol].set_facecolor('k')
        axs[1, icol].xaxis.set_ticks(np.arange(0, 10, 2))
        axs[0, icol].set_title(f'line widths (pts): {lwx:g}, {lwy:g}',
                               fontsize='medium')

    for irow in range(2):
        axs[irow, 0].yaxis.set_ticks(np.arange(0, 10, 2))

    fig.suptitle('Colors in the default prop_cycle', fontsize='large')

    plt.show()




.. image-sg:: /gallery/color/images/sphx_glr_color_cycle_default_001.png
   :alt: Colors in the default prop_cycle, line widths (pts): 0.75, 1.5, line widths (pts): 1.5, 4.5
   :srcset: /gallery/color/images/sphx_glr_color_cycle_default_001.png, /gallery/color/images/sphx_glr_color_cycle_default_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 43-52

.. admonition:: References

   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
   in this example:

   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.axhline` / `matplotlib.pyplot.axhline`
   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.axvline` / `matplotlib.pyplot.axvline`
   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_facecolor`
   - `matplotlib.figure.Figure.suptitle`


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_color_color_cycle_default.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: color_cycle_default.ipynb <color_cycle_default.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: color_cycle_default.py <color_cycle_default.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_