# Is it possible to change the transparency of a line without specifying the color?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-transparency-of-a-line-without-specifying-the-color/76252>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, makie\
**Created:** [February 11, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-transparency-of-a-line-without-specifying-the-color/76252 "2022-02-11T15:06:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![RayleighLord](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rayleighlord/32/33592_2.png) [@RayleighLord](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RayleighLord)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-transparency-of-a-line-without-specifying-the-color/76252/1 "2022-02-11T15:06:57Z")

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I am playing with Makie animations and I would like to change the transparecy of some lines using the lines! function but without having to specify the color. Is there any attribute in Makie that allows to change this?

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-transparency-of-a-line-without-specifying-the-color/76252/2 "2022-02-11T17:38:35Z")

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Not currently. Makie doesn’t have a concept of `alpha` to change the opacity of a plot object with all its components, we only use transparent colors.