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Created January 22, 2014 14:52
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A color blind/friendly color cycle for Matplotlib line plots. Might want to shuffle it around a bit more,but already not it gives kinda good contrasts between subsequent colors, and shows reasonably well in colorblind filters (though not in pure monochrome).
CB_color_cycle = ['#377eb8', '#ff7f00', '#4daf4a',
'#f781bf', '#a65628', '#984ea3',
'#999999', '#e41a1c', '#dede00']
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Funny enough: matplotlib has already implemented the category10 color as a standard mode in version 2.0.

however if you do something like this:

matplotlib.pyplot.plot(x,y, color = 'blue')

the old basic color will be used. So beware. New notation of category10 is as shown here:

matplotlib.pyplot.plot(x,y, color = 'C0')

Just for the sake of completeness in case someone stumbles over this old question like I did today.
Thanks for your answer @swharden , without it I wouldn't know category10 colors.

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