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.. _tutorials-colors:

.. redirect-from:: /tutorials/colors/index

Colors
------

Matplotlib has support for visualizing information with a wide array
of colors and colormaps. These tutorials cover the basics of how
these colormaps look, how you can create your own, and how you can
customize colormaps for your use case.

For even more information see the :ref:`examples page <color_examples>`.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Color formats =============">

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  .. image:: /users/explain/colors/images/thumb/sphx_glr_colors_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :ref:`sphx_glr_users_explain_colors_colors.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Specifying colors</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This tutorial shows how to build and customize standalone colorbars, i.e. without an attached p...">

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  .. image:: /users/explain/colors/images/thumb/sphx_glr_colorbar_only_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :ref:`sphx_glr_users_explain_colors_colorbar_only.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Customized Colorbars Tutorial</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Matplotlib has a number of built-in colormaps accessible via .matplotlib.colormaps.  There are ...">

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  .. image:: /users/explain/colors/images/thumb/sphx_glr_colormap-manipulation_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :ref:`sphx_glr_users_explain_colors_colormap-manipulation.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Objects that use colormaps by default linearly map the colors in the colormap from data values ...">

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  .. image:: /users/explain/colors/images/thumb/sphx_glr_colormapnorms_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :ref:`sphx_glr_users_explain_colors_colormapnorms.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Colormap normalization</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Matplotlib has a number of built-in colormaps accessible via .matplotlib.colormaps.  There are ...">

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  .. image:: /users/explain/colors/images/thumb/sphx_glr_colormaps_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :ref:`sphx_glr_users_explain_colors_colormaps.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib</div>
    </div>


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    </div>


.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   /users/explain/colors/colors
   /users/explain/colors/colorbar_only
   /users/explain/colors/colormap-manipulation
   /users/explain/colors/colormapnorms
   /users/explain/colors/colormaps

