Additional color names for matplotlib plots

When creating plots with matplotlib, we usually use the "default" color names:

• b : blue
• g : green
• r : red
• c : cyan
• m : magenta
• y : yellow
• k : black
• w : white

It turns out that matplotlib accepts not only these default color names, but the full range of html color names! So for example, you can plot some data like this:

 pylab.plot(x, y, 'DarkOrange')  

and get a "dark orange" color.

This is an easy way of specifying colors in addition to the standard ones.