Since you mention the t (min) column in the hue option, you need to know the total number of unique values of the column.

Assume that there are 5 unique values in the column. You, thus, can set the number to the n_colors option of sns.color_palette:

ax = sns.lineplot(x="Wavelength", 
                  y="Absorption", 
                  hue="t (min)", 
                  lw=1, 
                  data=df1, 
                  palette=sns.color_palette('coolwarm', n_colors=5), 
                  legend="brief")
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ValueError: The palette list has the wrong number of colors. · Issue #2662 · mwaskom/seaborn
September 15, 2021 - sns.lineplot(data=df, x="a", y="a", hue="b", palette=sns.color_palette()) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ValueError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-13-4e6a1a2e63cf> in <module> ----> 1 sns.lineplot(data=df, x="a", y="a", hue="b", palette=sns.color_palette()) /data1/mschroeder/miniconda3/envs/20-assdc/lib/python3.7/site-packages/seaborn/_decorators.py in inner_f(*args, **kwargs) 44 ) 45 kwargs.update({k: arg for k, arg in zip(sig.parameters, args)}) ---> 46 return f(**kwargs) 47 return inner_f 48 /data1/mschroeder/miniconda3/envs/20-
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I am using "tab10" palette because of its distinct colors blue, green, orange and red. k_clust = KMeans(n_clusters=4, random_state= 35, n_init=1).fit(df_normal) palette = sns.color_palet... More on stackoverflow.com
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I would also like to point out that this person's example uses 32 colors with nearly the same code as far as the palette creation goes: https://gist.github.com/emanuele/8b3b352bc1b2f7dc28c5bfa57fb1a788 . Edit: Nevermind. I figured it out, I needed to use: #This is the part I was missing... palette256 = np.random.randint(low=0, high=256, size=(entries * 3), dtype=np.int) palette256 = np.concatenate([palette256, np.zeros(768 - len(palette256))]).astype(np.int).tolist() #This is the part I did have... entries = 36 resnp = np.arange(entries,dtype=np.uint8).reshape(entries,1) resim = Image.fromarray(resnp, mode='P') resim.putpalette(palette256) resim.save(tmp + '/palette256.gif') More on reddit.com
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ValueError: The palette list has the wrong number of colors.
First, I think you’re overstating the apparent limitation. You’re already making a custom list, all you need to do is add one parameter so that it has the correct number of colors.
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color = (sns.dark_palette("purple")) sns.set() ax = sns.lineplot(x="Wavelength", y="Absorption", hue="t (min)", lw=1, data=df1, palette=color, legend="brief") The problem is, that I get the following error: ValueError: The palette list has the wrong number of colors.
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If None, the default will depend on how palette is specified. Named palettes default to 6 colors, but grabbing the current palette or passing in a list of colors will not change the number of colors unless this is specified. Asking for more colors than exist in the palette will cause it to cycle.
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Running https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io/website/Downloads/img2qb.py (should just open as text in your browser) gives me the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/path/to/img2qb.py", line 117, in <module>
resim.putpalette(palette256)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1488, in putpalette
self.load()  # install new palette
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 763, in load
self.im.putpalette(*self.palette.getdata())
ValueError: invalid palette size

This is the part of the script in which a 256 color palette is supposed to be created using a long (or soon to be) list of RGB color values. However, at 36 colors, I stopped to test it out before devoting any more time to adding colors just to make sure everything would run ok. It doesn't. But, I have no idea why since a 16-color palette is created (~ line 47) without any issues just before the attempt at the 256 (or only 36 at this point) version using the same code except for the value of the 'entries' variable.

I'm creating an image to QuickBasic DATA (QB45, QBX, and QB64) format converter to run using both Python 2.7 and 3 just in case anyone was curious. Though, besides the error above, I have no idea how Windows friendly it is as I fortunately haven't had to mess with it in many many years.

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July 8, 2022 - Greetings Dr. Wu. I was triying to use the function cm.palettes to visualize some NBR images , but it doesn't seem to work. I thought it was something wrong with my script so I downloaded the script from the notebook examples (60. colormaps).
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August 14, 2025 - What did you do? I converted an image->RGBA->PA and counted the palette colors. What did you expect to happen? I expected the palette to contain no more colors than the number of pixels in th...
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It is quite simple as per the official docs. Just set n_colors to be more than the number of colors in the palette. Below is the relevant information (highlighted in bold). Here you can just set n_colors to a large number. Anything more than 2 will work in your case.

n_colors : int, optional Number of colors in the palette. If None, the default will depend on how palette is specified. Named palettes default to 6 colors, but grabbing the current palette or passing in a list of colors will not change the number of colors unless this is specified. Asking for more colors than exist in the palette will cause it to cycle.

import seaborn as sns
sns.set_palette(['#000000', '#ABABAB'], n_colors=100)

sns.barplot([1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]) 

EDIT It seems that one has to have to n_colors also more than the number of patches (bars in this case). So if there are two colors in the palette and 4 patches, then n_colors should be also more than both (>4 in this case).

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In newer Seaborn versions (≥ 0.13) if hue is not set, Seaborn no longer cycles colors across bars (see Changes to color defaults). Also note that I added x= and y= since no positional arguments are allowed since version 0.11. So the code

sns.set_palette(['#000000', '#ABABAB'])
sns.barplot(x=[1, 2, 3], y=[4, 5, 6]) 

plots

To get the desired effect, use hue:

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

sns.set_palette(['#000000', '#ABABAB'])
# Removed the incorrect hue argument
sns.barplot(x=[1, 2, 3], y=[4, 5, 6], hue=[1, 2, 3], legend=False, palette=['#000000', '#ABABAB'])

plt.show()
plt.savefig("barplot.png")

Since the palette contains only two colors and there are three bars/three hue levels, Seaborn will issue a warning:

The palette list has fewer values (2) than needed (3) and will cycle, which may produce an uninterpretable plot.

See also my answer to a similar question.

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I took a picture and made a color palette out of it. I also thought it would be interesting to use a "negative" filter on the text so I know the contrast is always 100% compared to the background.

In theory, the text should be super lisible, but it's clearly not. Also, I would have thought a color palette made with colours and their opposite would be interesting, but now I'm not so sure. What do you think?

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Bad contrast produced by what looks like textbook complimentary colors. When I taught intro to design I spent a day on color theory. Entire courses are focused on it and how it influences our layouts. What you're seeing is how bad contrast affects readability. In terms of color, bad contrast happens when colors have the same "value" or "intensity". It's hard to describe as it appears visually only, you can't apply numbers to it. Your background is somewhat complex with color, so no matter what color you put on it, some letters, or areas of them, will be harder to read than others. In terms of your two rows of color palettes above, the bottom middle has the worst contrast of the six. Those two colors in general are the ones causing you issues in your layout.
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For me, it is too many colors. Brown - tan - cream Olive - green Teal - light teal Purple - muted purple Black - white - gray (neutrals) Keep the neutral set. Then keep the one set that you think is your primary, then add one more you think goes well with your primary. But also, don't present color palettes this way with colors inside colors. You're adding on an additional level of intricacy that isn't needed. Do present them in a way that we instantly know which are the primary and which are secondary or tertiary. If you really needed to keep all of these colors in the palette, then you could present the last sets as being less important or interchangeable. For instance, browns and greens will work well together. Browns and purples will work well together. Browns and teals will work well together. So you end up with three sets. But I would recommend advising against adding too much complexity to color palettes for graphic design projects that relate to brands. Color is a massive part of brand recognition, so you want to use color consistently and make sure the primary colors are always used predominantly. Normally brands have no more than two primary, but might throw in a neutral at that level as well. Look up the term "vibrating color" which is what gradAjoon was talking about.
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Return a list of colors or a continuous colormap defining a palette — color_palette • reaborn
Number of colors. If NULL, depends on palette. ... Proportion to desaturate each color by. ... If TRUE, return a continuous colormap (a reaborn_cmap). ... Hue, lightness, saturation anchors in [0, 1]. ... Base color for the high end of a sequential palette.
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December 25, 2019 - df <- iris[1:18, ] df$name <- ... + theme_minimal() + theme(legend.position = "top") A solution is to use the function colorRampPalette() which can extend any list of colors: library(RColorBrewer) # Define the number ...