fontcolor not working in GR

[blegat]

using Plots
gr()
plot(xlim=(0.0, 2.0), ylim=(0.0, 2.0))
annotate!(1.0,  1.0, Plots.text("1", color))

is white if color is :white or :red and black if color is :black, :green or :blue. It works fine with Plotly or PyPlot though.

[blegat]

Adding @show color at

Plots.jl/src/backends/gr.jl

Line 341 in c26689f

gr_set_textcolor(color)

gives

color = RGBA{Float64}(0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0)

[dgleich]

Just bumped into this issue today too.

[daschw]

This issue affects all texts in Plots with GR. plot(rand(10), xguide = "I should be red", xguidefontcolor = :red) does not work either.

Plots passes all the colors correctly. There seems to be a problem with GR.settextcolorind.
@jheinen Would you know anything about that?

[jheinen]

Works fine in gksqt or for PDF - seems to be related to the Cairo PNG part in GR. Will check this next week ...

[jheinen]

This problem is fixed in GR master.

[daschw]

This problem is fixed in GR master.

It works for me in the GKS QT Term but not in Atom/Juno.

[Semptum]

The problem persists for SVGs and PNGs for GR 0.49.0 though a bit differently so I'm not sure whether I should make a separate issue but it seems like that might just be a continuation of this one.
I can set fontcolors using some colors such as :white or :red. But if I try to use some custom color it just outputs with the color #3d3d3d (for PNGs) or black (for SVGs). It works fine for PDFs.
Here is a MNWE:

using Plots
gr()
magenta = colorant"#d33682"
Plots.plot(titlefont=font(12,"times",magenta),title="Should be magenta")
Plots.plot!(rand(10))

And here is the result. (EDIT: I had not restarted Julia so it had the wrong background). Running it anew, I don't see the #3d3d3d color in PNGs so it must be an Atom thing. But the color is still not the right one. )
magenta.pdf