Quickstart Guide

How to use rahrah:

  • To list all palettes and their properties:

from rahrah.palette import list_palettes

list_palettes()

You can also filter for number of colors in the color cycle or type of colormap (sequential/diverging) with the arguments mincolors and maptype.

  • To list all colormaps:

from rahrah.cmap import list_maps

list_maps()
  • To set palette as default for both color cycle *and* colormap:

from rahrah.palette import set_default

set_default('Northwestern')
  • To set a palette as default for color cycle *or* colormap:

from rahrah.palette import set_default_ccycle, set_default_cmap

set_default_ccycle('ChicagoBright')

or

set_default_cmap('Yale')
  • To access colormaps without setting them as default:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import rahrah.cmap

plt.imshow(image, cmap = 'USC')

To reverse the colormap, simply append ‘_r’ to the name (e.g., ‘USC’ becomes ‘USC_r’).

  • To access the colors in a color cycle/palette without setting a default:

from rahrah.palette import return_colors

return_colors('BrownBright')

All of the individual functions are detailed below.