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4.1.4.3 color_resources

For color displays, `gnuplot` honors the following resources (shown here with their default values) or the greyscale resources. The values may be color names as listed in the BE rgb.txt file on your system, hexadecimal RGB color specifications (see BE documentation), or a color name followed by a comma and an `intensity` value from 0 to 1. For example, `blue, 0.5` means a half intensity blue.

      gnuplot*background:  white
      gnuplot*textColor:   black
      gnuplot*borderColor: black
      gnuplot*axisColor:   black
      gnuplot*line1Color:  red
      gnuplot*line2Color:  green
      gnuplot*line3Color:  blue
      gnuplot*line4Color:  magenta
      gnuplot*line5Color:  cyan
      gnuplot*line6Color:  sienna
      gnuplot*line7Color:  orange
      gnuplot*line8Color:  coral
     

The command-line syntax for these is, for example,

Example:

               gnuplot -background coral