register_colors¶
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register_colors
(user=True, default=False, space='hcl', margin=0.1)[source]¶ Register the open-color colors, XKCD color survey colors, and colors saved to the
~/.proplot/colors
folder. This is called on import. The color survey colors are filtered to a subset that is “perceptually distinct” in the HCL colorspace. The user color names are loaded from.txt
files saved in~/.proplot/colors
. Each file should contain one line per color in the formatname : hex
. Whitespace is ignored.To visualize the registered colors, use
show_colors
.- Parameters
user (bool, optional) – Whether to reload user colors. Default is
True
.default (bool, optional) – Whether to reload default proplot colors. Default is
False
.space ({‘hcl’, ‘hsl’, ‘hpl’}, optional) – The colorspace used to detect “perceptually distinct” colors.
margin (float, optional) – The margin by which a color’s normalized hue, saturation, and luminance channel values must differ from the normalized channel values of the other colors to be deemed “perceptually distinct.”