Feature Request

I'm new to matplotlib and I don't know if there is a specific reason for the boxplot fill coloring to be the way it is. I only wonder if it could be done in a more straight forward manner than what is shown inhere.

The idea for this "new feature" would be to use acolor parameter that recieves either a list of supported colors or a single color (e.g.color = 'red') that specifies the colors to be applied to each one of the boxplots in the ax.

How it is currently done

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportnumpyasnpdata= [np.random.normal(0,std,1000)forstdinrange(1,6)]box=plt.boxplot(data,notch=True,patch_artist=True)colors= ['cyan','lightblue','lightgreen','tan','pink']forpatch,colorinzip(box['boxes'],colors):patch.set_facecolor(color)plt.show()

The idea for this 'New Feature'

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportnumpyasnpdata= [np.random.normal(0,std,1000)forstdinrange(1,6)]colors= ['cyan','lightblue','lightgreen','tan','pink']# or maybe 'c = colors', 'face_colors = colors'...plt.boxplot(data,notch=True,colors=colors)plt.show()

Any thoughts on this idea?

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: Windows 10 2004
• Matplotlib version: 3.2.2
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())): TkAgg
• Python version: 3.7.7
• Jupyter version (if applicable): 2.1.5
• Other libraries: