diff --git a/src/components/colorscale/defaults.js b/src/components/colorscale/defaults.js
index 2620ff873f9..569a43793e1 100644
--- a/src/components/colorscale/defaults.js
+++ b/src/components/colorscale/defaults.js
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ module.exports = function colorScaleDefaults(parentContIn, parentContOut, layout
         if(prefix && inTrace) showScaleDflt = hasColorbar(containerIn);
 
         var showScale = coerce(prefix + 'showscale', showScaleDflt);
-        if(showScale) colorbarDefaults(containerIn, containerOut, layout);
+        if(showScale) {
+            if(prefix && template) containerOut._template = template;
+            colorbarDefaults(containerIn, containerOut, layout);
+        }
     }
 };
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/marker_colorscale_template.png b/test/image/baselines/marker_colorscale_template.png
index a22df3b544a..7bf77870b71 100644
Binary files a/test/image/baselines/marker_colorscale_template.png and b/test/image/baselines/marker_colorscale_template.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/parcats_colorscale_template.png b/test/image/baselines/parcats_colorscale_template.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..455c9107f19
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/image/baselines/parcats_colorscale_template.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/treemap_coffee.png b/test/image/baselines/treemap_coffee.png
index d283751e01c..bd29b4a7a76 100644
Binary files a/test/image/baselines/treemap_coffee.png and b/test/image/baselines/treemap_coffee.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/compare_pixels_test.js b/test/image/compare_pixels_test.js
index f8a1ca22f91..07848a385ad 100644
--- a/test/image/compare_pixels_test.js
+++ b/test/image/compare_pixels_test.js
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ if(allMock || argv.filter) {
 }
 
 var FLAKY_LIST = [
+    'treemap_coffee',
     'treemap_textposition',
     'treemap_with-without_values_template',
     'trace_metatext',
diff --git a/test/image/mocks/parcats_colorscale_template.json b/test/image/mocks/parcats_colorscale_template.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2da7b688de2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image/mocks/parcats_colorscale_template.json
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{
+  "data": [
+    {
+      "type": "parcats",
+      "line": {
+        "color": [ 0, 1, 1, 0, 1 ],
+        "showscale": true
+      },
+      "dimensions": [
+        {
+          "label": "Hair",
+          "values": [ "Black", "Black", "Black", "Brown", "Brown", "Brown", "Red", "Brown" ]
+        },
+        {
+          "label": "Eye",
+          "values": [ "Brown", "Brown", "Brown", "Brown", "Brown", "Blue", "Blue", "Blue" ]
+        },
+        {
+          "label": "Sex",
+          "values": [ "Female", "Female", "Female", "Male", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male" ]
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "layout": {
+    "template": {
+      "data": {
+        "parcats": [
+          {
+            "line": {
+              "colorscale": [[0, "red"], [1, "blue"]],
+              "colorbar": {
+                "ypad": 100
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}