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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Bar and box plots use the 'default' matplotlib colormap, even if the style is changed","articleBody":"I originally thought this was an issue with pandas ( https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/12029 ), but I can reproduce it by using matplotlib alone.\n\nAfter changing the style to \"fivethirtyeight\" (with pyplot.style.use(\"fivethirtyeight\") ) and changing the default colormap (via rcParams), both bar plots and boxplots still use the default colors:\n\n```\nplt.plot([0, 1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7, 8])\nplt.plot([0, 1, 2, 3], [6, 3, 7, 12], alpha=0.5)\n```\n\n![lineplot](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1626936/12325626/bf6bf6c0-bacb-11e5-8c72-8f1c399d0343.png)\n\n```\nplt.bar([0, 1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7, 8])\nplt.bar([0, 1, 2, 3], [6, 3, 7, 12], alpha=0.5)\n```\n\n![barplot](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1626936/12325656/00d5b272-bacc-11e5-910b-1ab8059ec64e.png)\n\n```\nplt.boxplot([6, 3, 7, 12, 20, 25, 33])\n```\n\n![boxplot](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1626936/12325620/b18f4e80-bacb-11e5-8400-a7aa92bfcd16.png)\n\nThe code I used to customize the plotting style can be found on the pandas issue (like I said, it's mostly just setting the style to fivethirtyeight then changing the color cycle)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/halflings","@type":"Person","name":"halflings"},"datePublished":"2016-01-14T13:36:27.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/5851/matplotlib/issues/5851"}