title: Seaborn: Specify an exact color
body: <p>You can specify a color for plots, but Seaborn will mute the color a bit during plotting. Is there a way to turn off this behavior?</p>
  
  <p>Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib
  import seaborn as sns
  import numpy as np
  
  # Create some data
  np.random.seed(0)
  x = np.random.randn(100)
  
  # Set the Seaborn style
  sns.set_style('white')
  
  # Specify a color for plotting
  current_palette = matplotlib.colors.hex2color('#86b92e')
  
  # Make a plot
  g = sns.distplot(x, color=current_palette)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ZMu6qBM.png" alt="Histogram with muted color"></p>
  
  <pre><code># Show what the color should look like
  sns.palplot(current_palette)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/qphKYOD.png" alt="What the color should look like"></p>
  
  <p>I have tried several ways of specifying the color and all available styles in Seaborn, but nothing has worked. I am using iPython notebook and Python 2.7.</p>