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# matplotlib.pyplot.colors

`matplotlib.pyplot.``colors`()

  This is a do-nothing function to provide you with help on how matplotlib handles colors.

  Commands which take color arguments can use several formats to specify the colors. For the basic built-in colors, you can use a single letter

  > Alias | Color
  > --- | ---
  > ‘b’ | blue
  > ‘g’ | green
  > ‘r’ | red
  > ‘c’ | cyan
  > ‘m’ | magenta
  > ‘y’ | yellow
  > ‘k’ | black
  > ‘w’ | white

  For a greater range of colors, you have two options. You can specify the color using an html hex string, as in:

      color = '#eeefff'

  or you can pass an R,G,B tuple, where each of R,G,B are in the range [0,1].

  You can also use any legal html name for a color, for example:

      color = 'red'
      color = 'burlywood'
      color = 'chartreuse'

  The example below creates a subplot with a dark slate gray background:

      subplot(111, facecolor=(0.1843, 0.3098, 0.3098))

  Here is an example that creates a pale turquoise title:

      title('Is this the best color?', color='#afeeee')