Fill with patterns
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Description
Is it possible to fill barplots with patterns using plotnine?
I needed to create some black & white figures. If I fill the bars with grays, different groups are hard to distinguish. I can use the hatch property in matplotlib to fill my bar plots with patterns, something like this.

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The issue provides no repository files, tests, or entry points to begin from. Start by investigating plotnine's handling of barplot fills and the referenced matplotlib hatch behavior; done means black-and-white bar plots can use distinguishable patterns.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- matplotlib, python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100