How to set a different color to the largest bar in a seaborn barplot?

Question

I\'m trying to create a barplot where all bars smaller than the largest are some bland color and the largest bar is a more vibrant color. A good example is darkhorse analyti

Answer 1

The other answers defined the colors before plotting. You can as well do it afterwards by altering the bar itself, which is a patch of the axis you used to for the plot. To recreate iayork's example:

import seaborn
import numpy

values = numpy.array([2,5,3,6,4,7,1])   
idx = numpy.array(list('abcdefg')) 

ax = seaborn.barplot(x=idx, y=values) # or use ax=your_axis_object

for bar in ax.patches:
    if bar.get_height() > 6:
        bar.set_color('red')    
    else:
        bar.set_color('grey')

You can as well directly address a bar via e.g. ax.patches[7]. With dir(ax.patches[7]) you can display other attributes of the bar object you could exploit.