Load palette

pypalettes.load_palette

load_palette(name='random', reverse=False, keep_first_n=None, keep_last_n=None, keep=None, repeat=1, shuffle=False)

Load a color palette from one of the 2500+ available palettes.

You can find all valid palette names here

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
name	Union[str, list[str]]	Name of the palette	'random'
reverse	bool	Whether to reverse the order of the colors or not	False
keep_first_n	Optional[int]	Keep only the first n colors of the palette	None
keep	Optional[list[bool]]	Specify which colors to keep in the palette	None
repeat	int	The number of times the palette must be present in the output. Used to access larger palettes that are repeated.	1
shuffle	Union[bool, int]	Used to mix the order of colors. If an integer is supplied, it will be used as the seed.	False

Returns:

Type	Description
list[str]	A list of colors.

Examples

# mkdocs: render
import seaborn as sns
from pypalettes import load_palette

palette = load_palette("Fun") # list of colors

df = sns.load_dataset("penguins")

g = sns.lmplot(
    data=df,
    x="bill_length_mm",
    y="bill_depth_mm",
    hue="species",
    palette=palette,
)

• In plotnine

# mkdocs: render
import pandas as pd
from plotnine import ggplot, aes, geom_bar, theme_minimal, scale_fill_gradientn
from pypalettes import load_palette

df = pd.DataFrame({
    "category": ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"],
    "value": [10, 15, 7, 12, 20]
})

colors = load_palette("Arches2", reverse=True)

(
    ggplot(df, aes(x="category", y="value", fill="value"))
    + geom_bar(stat="identity")
    + scale_fill_gradientn(colors=colors)
    + theme_minimal()
)

See all palettes