From 28de20597514c7a5ca859cf975d2ce2675fc5216 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Billinge <simon.billinge@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 06:50:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use bg-mpl-stylesheets colors in plots (not rest of style)

---
 news/colors.rst                            | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/extendedplotframe.py |  6 +++---
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 news/colors.rst

diff --git a/news/colors.rst b/news/colors.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7baf9a65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/colors.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+**Added:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* Plots now use colors from the billinge-group matplotlib stylesheet, bg-mpl-stylesheets
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>
diff --git a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/extendedplotframe.py b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/extendedplotframe.py
index cb61e5e6..4cb32cce 100644
--- a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/extendedplotframe.py
+++ b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/extendedplotframe.py
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ def __translateStyles(self, style):
             "triangle": "^",
         }
         colorDict = {
-            "blue": "b",
-            "green": "g",
-            "red": "r",
+            "blue": "#0B3C5D",
+            "green": "#1C6B0A",
+            "red": "#B82601",
             "cyan": "c",
             "magenta": "m",
             "yellow": "y",