title: How to change the default colors for multiple plots in matplotlib?
body: <p>I want to use the same colormap/color cycle/palette to every plot in a Jupyter notebook. </p>
  
  <p>With the seaborn package, I can use:</p>
  
  <pre><code>seaborn.set_palette('Set1')  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to do the same using only matplotlib, without using seaborn? </p>
  
  <p>I know how to define the colormap to each plot separately and I am aware of the predefined style (e.g, ggplot), but I can't find a way to define only the colormap to all the plots at once.</p>
  
  <p>My intention is simplify the code for my students, thus using the intricate code behind <code>set_palette()</code> is not an option.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>: as the accepted answer shows, I was confusing colormap with color cycle.  </p>