# Makie - Default plot color

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-default-plot-color/64494>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [July 12, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-default-plot-color/64494 "2021-07-12T09:49:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![paurierap](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paurierap/32/25232_2.png) [@paurierap](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/paurierap)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-default-plot-color/64494/1 "2021-07-12T09:49:33Z")

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While trying to set the attributes of a custom recipe, I am using `default_theme(scene,Mesh)`, knowing that the default color is `:black`. My ultimate goal is to set my own default color, but somehow Makie changes any color to `RGBA{Float32}(0.0f0,0.44705883f0,0.69803923f0,0.8f0)`. I have traced the error and it happens if I use

```julia
 mesh(plot_object)

```

which, instead of being black by default (as provided by `help_attributes(mesh,extended=true)`), it appears as `RGBA{Float32}(0.0f0,0.44705883f0,0.69803923f0,0.8f0)`. Where does this come from?

**Edit** : Apparently, this only occurs for 2D objects, since meshing 3D objects returns them in black.

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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:** [July 12, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-default-plot-color/64494/2 "2021-07-12T11:58:14Z")

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The color is changed because of the cycler, you can set a color manually or set the cycler to empty to get the default color. [http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/theming.html#Cycles](http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/theming.html#Cycles)