Better X-Y Plot colors
This issue was created automatically from an original Mantis Issue. Further discussion may take place here.
The current default colors used for X-Y plots are not very vibrant. That is, it is a little hard to differentiate them as they are all different shades of only two or three colors. Most plotting programs default to very different colors to make them easy to tell apart.
I suggest the following set of default colors with the given RGB values (in the order to apply them). I got most of them from the ColorBrewer web site (www.colorbrewer.org), and they conform to the set of unique hues defined by Colin Ware.
Black: 0, 0, 0
Red: 288, 26, 28
Blue: 55, 126, 184
Green: 77, 175, 74
Purple: 152, 78, 163
Orange: 255, 127, 0
Brown: 166, 86, 40
Pink: 247, 129, 191