topic Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks? in Data Engineering

How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

wschoi — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:42:24 GMT

I am currently running dark mode for my Databricks Notebooks, and am using the "new UI" released a few days ago (May 2023) and the "New notebook editor."

Currently all plots (like matplotlib) are showing wrong colors.

For example, denoting:

```

...

plt.figure()

plt.axvline(x=0, color='red')

plt.axhline(y=0, color='red')

...

```

is resulting in teal colored axes. Images also seem to have their colors and hues mixed up.

Is there a way to fix this without giving up any of my current settings for the notebook environment?

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

wschoi — Wed, 10 May 2023 08:21:43 GMT

@Debayan Mukherjee

Thanks in advance.

Below is a very simple example of the issue.

I denote the colors "red" for the axes and "blue" for the actual plot, but end up with teal colored axes and a yellow plot.

This is the same for any type of non-text output in the notebook environment, including images, which is the main cause of concern as it can make modeling and other tasks a bit confusing.

Not sure if there is a setting I missed, or if this is some kind of an issue.

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

Debayan — Wed, 10 May 2023 07:41:11 GMT

Hi, Could you please provide a screenshot of the same which will help us understand it better?

Please tag @Debayan with your next comment so that I will get notified. Thank you!

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

Debayan — Thu, 11 May 2023 05:16:28 GMT

@Wonseok Choi thanks for the details. Could you please confirm if you have followed any documents on the same? (https://docs.databricks.com/visualizations/index.html)

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

leonardoazzi — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:50:16 GMT

Hello all,

Thank you @wschoi for reporting this issue. I've lost a lot of time trying to figure out if my image plotting was wrong.

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

aleph_null — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:33:43 GMT

Any updated on this issue? This is a huge drawback to use the dark theme

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

andreapeterson — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:52:49 GMT

Still seeing this issue in dark theme June 2025

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

boztop — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:26:47 GMT

Two years and counting, no solution to this obvious and very annoying problem so far.

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

nikhilj0421 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:05:02 GMT

Hi Team, I just checked this post and tried out the above simple plot graph with dark mode UI. It is working as expected for me. Could you please check now?

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

andreapeterson — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:14:25 GMT

Nope, just checked and the HTML on my notebook dashboard is still displaying wrong color in dark mode. works in light

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

nikhilj0421 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:51:57 GMT

@andreapeterson could you please share the screenshot along with the code?

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

andreapeterson — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:57:59 GMT

Sure, attached is a small snippit of the worksheet along with 2 pics of display of the code

displayHTML(""" <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Mukta:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet"> <div style="font-family: 'Mukta', sans-serif; background-color: #fafafa; border-left: 6px solid #4435e6; padding: 16px 24px; border-radius: 8px;"> <h2 style="color: #080b15; margin-top: 0; font-weight: 600;"> 🔒 ML on Masked vs Unmasked Data with ALTR </h2> <p style="color: #4435e6; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0;"> We compared model accuracy between a user with masked data access and full unmasked access. </p> </div> <h2 style=" font-family: 'Mukta', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; color: #4435e6; margin-top: 24px; "> Unmasked Training Run: <code style='color: #080b15;'>ml_privacy_team</code> group </h2> """)

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

nikhilj0421 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:14:46 GMT

Checking on it.

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

nikhilj0421 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:36:08 GMT

@andreapeterson, this is likely because the CSS invert filter is applied to certain output types. We have an existing internal ticket(PROD-51027) for this issue, and being worked on.

Either we have a plan to add a setting/toggle for this, which means either invert the colour or keep showing the white background while the site is in dark mode.

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

andreapeterson — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:46:20 GMT

Ah okay, thank you!!

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

dbx_acbz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:02:22 GMT

Hi there! Is there any update on this issue?

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

AnneEst — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:25:58 GMT

Hello, any progress on that?
Displaying plotly express maps with dark mode displays them in dark mode, even after trying different things to either force white mode on my map (doesn't work), or set white mode for plotly at the top of my notebook (does not work either).
I know I can switch to 'light mode' for each of my maps from a button (upper right corner on each map), but every time I rerun the notebook or the cell showing the map, it's back to dark mode... a bit annoying...

Re: How to fix plots and image color rendering on Notebooks?

griffen_kociela — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:23:26 GMT

Still a problem when using Plotly visualizations.