Currently the color spec parser does only check for RGB hex string color values in the form of #FFFFFF. If the user wants to pass RGBA values the color must be presented as a 4-tuple. For better user accesibility the parser could also accept color values in RGBA hex string format #FFFFFFAA directly, makeing the following code possible:
plt.rcParams['axes.color_cycle'][0] = "#FFFFFFAA"
Currently the color spec parser does only check for RGB hex string color values in the form of
#FFFFFF. If the user wants to pass RGBA values the color must be presented as a 4-tuple. For better user accesibility the parser could also accept color values in RGBA hex string format#FFFFFFAAdirectly, makeing the following code possible: