diff --git a/styles/matplotlibrc b/styles/matplotlibrc
index 0152865a..0942d23b 100644
--- a/styles/matplotlibrc
+++ b/styles/matplotlibrc
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ axes.labelsize      : large  # fontsize of the x any y labels
 #axes.unicode_minus  : True    # use unicode for the minus symbol
                                # rather than hyphen.  See
                                # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_and_minus_signs#Character_codes
-axes.color_cycle    : 348ABD, A60628, 7A68A6, 467821,D55E00,  CC79A7, 56B4E9, 009E73, F0E442, 0072B2  # color cycle for plot lines
+axes.prop_cycle : cycler('color', ['348ABD', 'A60628', '7A68A6', '467821', 'D55E00', 'CC79A7', '56B4E9', '009E73', 'F0E442', '0072B2'])  # color cycle for plot lines
                                             # as list of string colorspecs:
                                             # single letter, long name, or
                                             # web-style hex