colorbrewer with pgfplots and const plots

Question

I'm trying to get pgfplots working with the colorbrewer library. So far, the example in the accepted answer here works for me, but as soon as I add options to the \addplot command, the colors are gone and all plots are drawn in black.

MWE: The following document produces black plots, and removing the [const plot] option fixes this, but I really do need to specify this and other options.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.15}
\usepgfplotslibrary{colorbrewer}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
    cycle list/Dark2,
]
\addplot[const plot] {rnd};
\addplot[const plot] {rnd-1};
\addplot[const plot] {rnd-2};
\addplot[const plot] {rnd-3};

\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Is this a known issue with workarounds etc. or am I doing somethig wrong?

Welcome to TeX.SX! Replacing \addplot [...] by \addplot+ [...] should do the trick. — Stefan Pinnow, Nov 25 '19 at 13:58
Shall I write an answer which you accept or shall we close the question as "solved in the comments"? — Stefan Pinnow, Nov 25 '19 at 14:43

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 25 '19 at 14:53

Either move const plot to the axis options or replace \addplot [...] by \addplot+ [...]. The latter is needed, because otherwise only the given optional arguments are used. The difference to the + is, that then the optional arguments are appended.

% used PGFPlots v1.16
\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
    \usepgfplotslibrary{colorbrewer}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{axis}[
        cycle list/Dark2,
        const plot,
    ]
        \addplot {rnd};
        \addplot {rnd-1};
        \addplot {rnd-2};
        \addplot {rnd-3};
    \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

colorbrewer with pgfplots and const plots

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