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  1. Matplotlib
    https://matplotlib.org › stable › gallery › color › named_colors

    List of named colors — Matplotlib 3.10.8 documentation

    How many colors can a palette have?
    Number of colors in the palette. If None, the default will depend on how palette is specified. Named palettes default to 6 colors, but grabbing the current palette or passing in a list of colors will not change the number of colors unless this is specified. Asking for more colors than exist in the palette will cause it to cycle.
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    In Python, color palettes are essential for data visualization as they help to distinguish different data points, categories, or ranges. Libraries like Seaborn and Matplotlib provide a wide range of color palettes that can be used to enhance the visual appeal and interpretability of plots.

    Seaborn Color Palettes

    Seaborn offers a variety of color palettes that are suitable for different types of data visualization tasks. The library categorizes palettes into qualitative, sequential, and diverging, each serving a specific purpose in data representation.

    • Qualitative palettes are ideal for categorical data where the primary variation is in hue. Seaborn's default palette is a qualitative palette with ten distinct hues, which can be accessed using sns.color_palette(). These palettes are designed to make categorical data points "pop out" by varying hues, making them easily distinguishable.

    • Sequential palettes are used for numeric data that progresses from low to high values. These palettes typically vary in luminance, making them suitable for representing magnitude in data. Seaborn includes perceptually uniform sequential colormaps like "rocket" and "mako", which are particularly useful for heatmaps and other plots where color fills the space.

    • Diverging palettes are used when data spans a midpoint and both extremes are of interest. These palettes have two dominant hues and are designed to emphasize the polarity in data. Seaborn provides diverging palettes like "vlag" and "icefire", which use blue and red hues to represent "cold" and "hot" data points.

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  2. seaborn
    https://seaborn.pydata.org › tutorial › color_palettes.html

    Choosing color palettes — seaborn 0.13.2 documentation

    Seaborn makes it easy to use colors that are well-suited to the characteristics of your data and your visualization goals. This chapter discusses both the general principles that should guide your choices …

  3. practicalpythonfordatascience.com
    https://www.practicalpythonfordatascience.com › ap_seaborn_palette

    Seaborn Color Palettes — Practical Python for Data Science

    Below is a complete list of all palette options. Most palettes can have the suffix "_r" to indicate the same palette but reversed order. A few palettes can have "_d" appended at the end which indicates a darker …

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    python - Named colors in matplotlib - Stack Overflow

    I prefer the colors to be grouped with similar colors, so I slightly tweaked the matplotlib answer that was mentioned in a comment above to get a color list sorted in columns. The order is not identical to how …

  6. The Python Graph Gallery
    https://python-graph-gallery.com › color-palette-finder

    Python Color Palette Finder

    Finding the perfect colors for your Python chart can be daunting. Picking colors manually often leads to a maze of unsuitable options. Luckily, the all-new PyPalettes package provides a collection of 2500+ …

  7. scientific-python.org
    https://blog.scientific-python.org › matplotlib › pypalettes

    Blog - PyPalettes: all the colors you'll ever need

    Apr 1, 2025 · PyPalettes is a new Python library designed to simplify the use of color palettes in Python charts. It provides mainly two things: a super-easy-to-use library that requires only 1 line of code (in …

  8. coderivers.org
    https://coderivers.org › blog › python-color-palette

    Python Color Palette: A Comprehensive Guide - CodeRivers

    Apr 3, 2025 · Python offers a rich set of libraries and tools to work with color palettes, allowing developers and designers to create visually appealing and meaningful representations. This blog will …

  9. Matplotlib
    https://matplotlib.org › stable › users › explain › colors › colormaps

    Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib — Matplotlib 3.10.8 documentation

    One way to represent color is using CIELAB. In CIELAB, color space is represented by lightness, L ∗; red-green, a ∗; and yellow-blue, b ∗. The lightness parameter L ∗ can then be used to learn more about how …

  10. seaborn
    https://seaborn.pydata.org › generated › seaborn.color_palette.html

    seaborn.color_palette — seaborn 0.13.2 documentation

    Calling this function with palette=None will return the current matplotlib color cycle. This function can also be used in a with statement to temporarily set the color cycle for a plot or set of plots.

  11. The Python Graph Gallery
    https://python-graph-gallery.com › available-colors-in-matplotlib

    Available colors in Matplotlib - The Python Graph Gallery

    Browse the color palette finder to find your dream palette! This post explains how to use hexadecimal color codes, pre-defined color names, RGB tuples, and RGBA tuples in Matplotlib. The post also …