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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[ENH]: Different edgecolor and hatch color in bar plot","articleBody":"### Problem\n\nColored edges look ugly:\r\n\r\n![colored hatch](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/assets/18725165/d902ec6b-9b12-4d03-bbd3-e8a698879595)\r\n\r\nI want bars with black edges and colored hatch:\r\n\r\n![colored hatch, black edge](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/assets/18725165/3f2412fb-c60c-4f9f-83d2-afd336ece67d)\r\n\r\nMy current workaround is to draw the bars twice, once with colored hatch and then a second time only with black edges:\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport numpy as np\r\n\r\nwidth = 0.35\r\nx = np.arange(4) + 1\r\ny_red = [1, 3, 1, 4]\r\ny_blue = [2, 2, 4, 1]\r\n\r\nplt.bar(x - 0.5 * width, y_red, width, label=\"Height of red bars\", hatch=\"////\", facecolor=(0, 0, 0, 0), edgecolor=\"red\")\r\nplt.bar(x - 0.5 * width, y_red, width, facecolor=(0, 0, 0, 0), edgecolor=\"black\")\r\n\r\nplt.bar(x + 0.5 * width, y_blue, width, label=\"Height of blue bars\", hatch=r\"\\\\\", facecolor=(0, 0, 0, 0), edgecolor=\"blue\")\r\nplt.bar(x + 0.5 * width, y_blue, width, facecolor=(0, 0, 0, 0), edgecolor=\"black\")\r\n\r\nplt.xticks(x)\r\nplt.yticks([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])\r\nplt.legend()\r\nplt.savefig(\"hatch.png\")\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis workaround is not optimal because the legend is wrong.\n\n### Proposed solution\n\nI propose a `hatchcolor` parameter which is independent of `edgecolor`.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/99991","@type":"Person","name":"99991"},"datePublished":"2023-06-05T07:46:55.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":10},"url":"https://github.com/26074/matplotlib/issues/26074"}