Wouldn't it be handy to extract figure colors directly from the napari theme?

[Chris-N-K]

Thanks for your work :)

What would you think about using the colours provided by the napari theme itself instead of a static style sheet?
Dynamically pulling the colours for the figure parts from the current napari viewer theme, would add support for every style sheet an user could generates for napari.

A possible way to do this would be to extract the theme dict from the viewer: napari.utils.theme.get_theme(napari.current_viewer.theme, as_dict=True) and map the colours of interest to the corresponding rcParams keys. Afterwards, instead of providing a path to with matplotlib.style.context you could provide the dict with the rcParams keys and the color codes.

If you think this might be a good idea I would be happy to give it a try and make a pull-request.

[dstansby]

I didn't know users could style napari! If that's the case, then pulling dynamically from that style would be much better than supporting a custom style sheet in napari-matplotlib, and a PR would be very welcome! 👍

[Chris-N-K]

As far as I know you can actually make style plugins ^^

[Chris-N-K]

Checked it, you can even do this easily at runtime.
https://napari.org/stable/gallery/new_theme.html

[Chris-N-K]

Made a pull request with an example implementation #237.

[Chris-N-K]

I close this issue as the feature was added through pull request #237