# Makie - How to get a (single) random color for a line/scatter/segment, etc?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-get-a-single-random-color-for-a-line-scatter-segment-etc/78634
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-get-a-single-random-color-for-a-line-scatter-segment-etc/78634 "2022-03-28T19:32:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Bass](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Bob_Bass)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-get-a-single-random-color-for-a-line-scatter-segment-etc/78634/1 "2022-03-28T19:32:12Z")
Makie.jl question:
This code puts a red dot in a 2d axes
```julia
scatter([1],[2], color=:red)
```
but I want to have a dot with a random color.
The docs say that I can pass a `Real` number to the color attribute, but when I do this:
```julia
scatter([1],[2], color=5)
```
I get this:
```julia
Error showing value of type Makie.FigureAxisPlot:
ERROR: program 53 not linked. Error in: (...)
```
I would like to do something like
```julia
scatter([1],[2], color=(rand(0:255)))
```
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your time!
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### Author:  [@lazarusA](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lazarusA)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-get-a-single-random-color-for-a-line-scatter-segment-etc/78634/2 "2022-03-28T20:01:22Z")
```julia
scatter(Point2f(rand(2)...), color = RGBf(rand(3)...), markersize = 20)
```
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Bass](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Bob_Bass)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-get-a-single-random-color-for-a-line-scatter-segment-etc/78634/3 "2022-03-28T20:06:16Z")
Perfect!
Thank you so much, lazarusA!