On 12/10/14 21:04, Florian Rathgeber wrote:
On 11/10/14 15:16, Patrick Farrell wrote:
Speaking of the graphs, is there a reason for the choice of cyan-magenta-brown? I'd imagine there are colour combinations that would be easier to read. Maybe the 538 style (http://matplotlib.org/examples/style_sheets/plot_fivethirtyeight.html)? Does that cause difficulties for the daltonists among us?
This is the default colour cycle of the "Set2" colour map from ColorBrewer. I'll try the style you suggest, thanks.
Turns out that's no easy win: I customise the plots very heavily, so using one of the pre-defined style sheets hardly has an effect and backing out my customisations doesn't really work either. One thing I do is match the line colours for DOLFIN and Firedrake and distinguish by line style, which I can't really do with the style presets, because they have a fixed number of colours in the cycle. I might just change the colour map. Any further advice on this welcome. Florian