# `matplotlib.colors`

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The Color `tutorials <tutorials-colors>`{.interpreted-text role="ref"}
and `examples
<color_examples>`{.interpreted-text role="ref"} demonstrate how to set
colors and colormaps. You may want to read those instead.
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matplotlib.colors
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matplotlib.colors
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## Color norms

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Norm Normalize NoNorm AsinhNorm BoundaryNorm CenteredNorm FuncNorm
LogNorm PowerNorm SymLogNorm TwoSlopeNorm MultiNorm
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## Univariate Colormaps

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Colormap LinearSegmentedColormap ListedColormap
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## Multivariate Colormaps

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BivarColormap SegmentedBivarColormap BivarColormapFromImage
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## Other classes

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ColorSequenceRegistry LightSource
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## Functions

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from_levels_and_colors hsv_to_rgb rgb_to_hsv to_hex to_rgb to_rgba
to_rgba_array is_color_like same_color get_named_colors_mapping
make_norm_from_scale
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## Exported colors

The data used to populate the
`/gallery/color/named_colors`{.interpreted-text role="doc"} are exposed
as dictionaries that map color names to hex strings.