Syntax: CTYPE WORD or CTYPE INTEGER or CTYPE = expr The CTYPE WORD sets the line colour (American: color) to be WORD, if your display device supports coloured lines. Initially, WORD must be one of the names "default", "white", "black", "red", "green", "blue", "cyan", "magenta", or "yellow". Each device chooses a value for "default" (e.g. white for Xwindows, black for sunwindows). Initially, CTYPE INTEGER is another way of selecting the same colours as are available with CTYPE WORD, where the INTEGER is an index into the array [ default, white, black, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow ] so CTYPE 1 is the same as CTYPE white. However, the CTYPE = expr command redefines the available colours to be the elements of the array given by expr. If it is arithmetic, each element of this array is interpreted as RED + 256*GREEN + 256^2*BLUE. If it is string-valued, the elements of the vector give the names that you can use to refer to the colours. You should not try to modify the value of default with CTYPE = expr, as it will be reset when you change devices. You can get the current CTYPEs back as vectors with the expressions CTYPE() (for red + 256*green + 256^2*blue) or CTYPE(STRING) for their names.