mwaskom/seaborn — pull request #343 by e-q (2014-10-24 20:22:39+00:00)
Title: Set rcmod.py to create translucent legend frames

As of 1.4.1, matplotlib includes a key for the default transparency of
legend frames: "legend.framealpha". *Personally,* I prefer the look of
this when a plot doesn't have much free space for the legend to avoid
overlap with data, but I leave it to others to accept or not. I also
don't know how to best handle compatibility with earlier versions of
mpl.

Here's a contrived example of the current behavior vs. what this change would look like:

Default settings:
![default](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6894112/4775769/62e6fb9a-5bbb-11e4-90c4-25e038102a97.png)

Frame on, Alpha=0.7
![framealpha](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6894112/4775771/68da6aa0-5bbb-11e4-9800-4c4d21f55fdb.png)