The code below uses ColorbarBase to print a stacked bar chart of a list of numbers. I usedrawedges=True to get vertical lines to separate the colors with a black line. The lines are often, not always, slightly misaligned compared to the colors and the tick marks, never more than a few pixels. As I drag the matplotlib window larger and slower you can see these edge lines sometimes rendering correctly (right where the colors change) or just a few pixels off. Ithink the error is always to the right.

I've attached an example image. If you click the image to see if full scale you'll see a several pixel error at 0.3, and perhaps a 1 pixel error at 0.4. If I drag the window to a different size I can make these errors larger or smaller.

Environment:
Windows 7
Anaconda Python 3.4, 64 bit installation.
matplotlib 1.4.3
Qt graphics back end

    import matplotlib as mpl    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt    a = [.0, .1, .3, .4, 1.]    cmap = mpl.colors.ListedColormap([[0., .4, 1.],                                      [0., .8, 1.],                                      [1., .8, 0.],                                      [1., .4, 0.],                                      [0., .4, 1.]])    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(6,3))    ax = fig.add_axes([0.05, 0.475, 0.9, 0.15])    norm = mpl.colors.BoundaryNorm(a, cmap.N)    mpl.colorbar.ColorbarBase(ax, cmap=cmap,                                  norm=norm,                                  drawedges=True,                                  spacing='proportional',                                  orientation='horizontal')    plt.show()