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Palettes

palettes

Built-in categorical/qualitative palettes: short lists of colors meant to be distinct, unlike a pyplotrs.colormaps continuous map.

Curated from matplotlib (tab10/tab20/tab20b/tab20c, the ColorBrewer qualitative sets Set1-Set3/Pastel1-Pastel2/ Dark2/Accent/Paired, and okabe_ito), colorcet's glasbey family (cet_glasbey* - large, maximally-distinct sets for many categories), and seaborn's named palettes (sns_deep/sns_muted/ sns_bright/sns_pastel/sns_dark/sns_colorblind)::

from pyplotrs import palettes, themes

palettes.available()          # ['Accent', 'Dark2', ..., 'tab20c']
palettes.get("tab10")         # ((31, 119, 180, 255), (255, 127, 14, 255), ...)

# Use directly as a theme's cycling palette:
mine = themes.default.with_(palette=palettes.get("tab10"))

The theme's own default cycle (Okabe-Ito, colorblind-safe by construction) is unaffected - see Theme.

get 

get(name: str) -> tuple[_RGBA, ...]

The colors of a built-in palette, as opaque RGBA tuples.

Source code in python/pyplotrs/palettes.py 
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def get(name: str) -> tuple[_RGBA, ...]:
    """The colors of a built-in palette, as opaque RGBA tuples."""
    colors = _core.categorical_palette(name)
    if colors is None:
        raise ValueError(f"unknown palette {name!r}; see pyplotrs.palettes.available()")
    return tuple((r, g, b, 255) for r, g, b in colors)

available 

available() -> list[str]

Names of every built-in categorical/qualitative palette.

Source code in python/pyplotrs/palettes.py 
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def available() -> list[str]:
    """Names of every built-in categorical/qualitative palette."""
    return sorted(_core.list_palettes())