matplotlib.cm.get_cmap

Colormaps are now available through the ColormapRegistry accessible via matplotlib.colormaps or matplotlib.pyplot.colormaps.

If you have the name of a colormap as a string, you can use a direct lookup, matplotlib.colormaps[name] or matplotlib.pyplot.colormaps[name] . Alternatively, matplotlib.colormaps.get_cmap will maintain the existing behavior of additionally passing through Colormap instances and converting None to the default colormap. matplotlib.pyplot.get_cmap will stay as a shortcut to matplotlib.colormaps.get_cmap.