# Pie color with plots

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pie-color-with-plots/755>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [December 6, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pie-color-with-plots/755 "2016-12-06T10:14:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![harven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@harven](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/harven)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pie-color-with-plots/755/1 "2016-12-06T10:14:26Z")

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How do I choose the colors of the parts of the pie with the `plots` package? I tried

```
pie(["1", "2", "3"], [.4, .1, .5], fillcolor = [:red, :green, :blue])

```

so as to get the three pieces in red, green and blue, but the pie appears with the default colors. I am using the GR backend.

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**Author:** ![jheinen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jheinen/32/2787_2.png) [@jheinen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jheinen)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pie-color-with-plots/755/2 "2016-12-06T19:31:54Z")

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This is a bug in the gr() backend. I’ll check this …