René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[Bug]: Changing color using ax.tick_params","articleBody":"### Bug summary\r\n\r\nWhen trying to change the color of the x and y axis I am using `ax.tick_param`.\r\nIf I use label color `'r'` or   `labelcolor='#00000077'`, but if I write label `color='grey'` or a hex value: `#bdbdbd` then the background changes too. Is that expected?\r\n\r\nThis works:\r\n```\r\nax.tick_params(labelsize=22,  labelcolor='#00000077', top = False,  left=False)\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis doesnt:\r\n```\r\nax.tick_params(labelsize=22,  labelcolor='#BDBDBD', top = False,  left=False)\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n### Code for reproduction\r\n\r\n```python\r\nurl='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Curbal-Data-Labs/Matplotlib-Labs/master/2018w48.csv'\r\ndataset = pd.read_csv(url)\r\n\r\ndataset.drop_duplicates(['city','item'], inplace=True)\r\ndataset.pivot_table(index='city', columns='item', values='cost', aggfunc='sum', margins = True).sort_values('All', ascending=True).drop('All', axis=1)\r\n\r\ndf = dataset.pivot_table(index='city', columns='item', values='cost', aggfunc='sum', margins = True).sort_values('All', ascending=True).drop('All', axis=1).sort_values('All', ascending=False, axis=1).drop('All').reset_index()\r\n\r\n# comma replace\r\nfor c in df.columns[1:]:\r\n    df[c] = df[c].str.replace(',','.').astype(float)\r\n\r\nfig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=5, figsize=(30,10), sharey=True)\r\n\r\ncolors = ['green','blue','red','black','brown'] \r\ncol_names = ['Dinner','Drinks at Dinner','2 Longdrinks','Club entry','Cinema entry']\r\n\r\nfor i, (ax,col,c) in enumerate(zip(axes.ravel(), col_names, colors)):\r\n    ax.plot(df.loc[:,col], df['city'], marker='o', markersize=25, lw=0, color=c)\r\n    ax.set_title(col)\r\n    for i,j in zip(df[col], df['city']):\r\n        ax.annotate('$'+str(i), xy=(i, j), xytext=(i-4,j), color=\"white\", fontsize=8)\r\n    ax.set_xticks([])\r\n    ax.spines[['top', 'right', 'left', 'bottom']].set_visible(False)\r\n    ax.grid(True, axis='y', linestyle='solid', linewidth=2)\r\n    ax.grid(True, axis='x', linestyle='solid', linewidth=0.2)\r\n    ax.xaxis.tick_top() \r\n    ax.xaxis.set_label_position('top')\r\n    ax.set_xlim(xmin=0, xmax=160)\r\n    ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter('${x:1.0f}')\r\n    ax.tick_params(labelsize=8, labelcolor = #bdbdbd, top=False, left=False)\r\n\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\n### Actual outcome\r\n\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/19476550/196953630-3412f100-b4d7-4165-bc5b-1840d357b008.png)\r\n\r\n### Expected outcome\r\n\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/19476550/196953536-5d338515-9179-43b6-8493-989f07c5b2fb.png)\r\n\r\n### Additional information\r\n\r\n_No response_\r\n\r\n### Operating system\r\n\r\nWin11\r\n\r\n### Matplotlib Version\r\n\r\n3.5.1\r\n\r\n### Matplotlib Backend\r\n\r\n_No response_\r\n\r\n### Python version\r\n\r\n3.10\r\n\r\n### Jupyter version\r\n\r\n3.3.2\r\n\r\n### Installation\r\n\r\nconda","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ruthpozuelo","@type":"Person","name":"ruthpozuelo"},"datePublished":"2022-10-20T12:58:27.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/24227/matplotlib/issues/24227"}