""" ============================ Text properties and layout ============================ Controlling properties of text and its layout with Matplotlib. `matplotlib.text.Text` instances have a variety of properties which can be configured via keyword arguments to `~.Axes.set_title`, `~.Axes.set_xlabel`, `~.Axes.text`, etc. ========================== ====================================================================================================================== Property Value Type ========================== ====================================================================================================================== alpha `float` backgroundcolor any matplotlib :doc:`color ` bbox `~matplotlib.patches.Rectangle` prop dict plus key ``'pad'`` which is a pad in points clip_box a matplotlib.transform.Bbox instance clip_on bool clip_path a `~matplotlib.path.Path` instance and a `~matplotlib.transforms.Transform` instance, a `~matplotlib.patches.Patch` color any matplotlib :doc:`color ` family [ ``'serif'`` | ``'sans-serif'`` | ``'cursive'`` | ``'fantasy'`` | ``'monospace'`` ] fontproperties `~matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties` horizontalalignment or ha [ ``'center'`` | ``'right'`` | ``'left'`` ] label any string linespacing `float` multialignment [``'left'`` | ``'right'`` | ``'center'`` ] name or fontname string e.g., [``'Sans'`` | ``'Courier'`` | ``'Helvetica'`` ...] picker [None|float|bool|callable] position (x, y) rotation [ angle in degrees | ``'vertical'`` | ``'horizontal'`` ] size or fontsize [ size in points | relative size, e.g., ``'smaller'``, ``'x-large'`` ] style or fontstyle [ ``'normal'`` | ``'italic'`` | ``'oblique'`` ] text string or anything printable with '%s' conversion transform `~matplotlib.transforms.Transform` subclass variant [ ``'normal'`` | ``'small-caps'`` ] verticalalignment or va [ ``'center'`` | ``'top'`` | ``'bottom'`` | ``'baseline'`` ] visible bool weight or fontweight [ ``'normal'`` | ``'bold'`` | ``'heavy'`` | ``'light'`` | ``'ultrabold'`` | ``'ultralight'``] x `float` y `float` zorder any number ========================== ====================================================================================================================== You can lay out text with the alignment arguments ``horizontalalignment``, ``verticalalignment``, and ``multialignment``. ``horizontalalignment`` controls whether the x positional argument for the text indicates the left, center or right side of the text bounding box. ``verticalalignment`` controls whether the y positional argument for the text indicates the bottom, center or top side of the text bounding box. ``multialignment``, for newline separated strings only, controls whether the different lines are left, center or right justified. Here is an example which uses the :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.text` command to show the various alignment possibilities. The use of ``transform=ax.transAxes`` throughout the code indicates that the coordinates are given relative to the axes bounding box, with (0, 0) being the lower left of the axes and (1, 1) the upper right. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.patches as patches # build a rectangle in axes coords left, width = .25, .5 bottom, height = .25, .5 right = left + width top = bottom + height fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_axes([0, 0, 1, 1]) # axes coordinates: (0, 0) is bottom left and (1, 1) is upper right p = patches.Rectangle( (left, bottom), width, height, fill=False, transform=ax.transAxes, clip_on=False ) ax.add_patch(p) ax.text(left, bottom, 'left top', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, bottom, 'left bottom', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='bottom', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, top, 'right bottom', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='bottom', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, top, 'right top', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='top', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, bottom, 'center top', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='top', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'right center', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'left center', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(0.5*(left+right), 0.5*(bottom+top), 'middle', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', fontsize=20, color='red', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'centered', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, top, 'rotated\nwith newlines', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', rotation=45, transform=ax.transAxes) ax.set_axis_off() plt.show() ############################################################################### # ============== # Default Font # ============== # # The base default font is controlled by a set of rcParams. To set the font # for mathematical expressions, use the rcParams beginning with ``mathtext`` # (see :ref:`mathtext `). # # +---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ # | rcParam | usage | # +=====================+====================================================+ # | ``'font.family'`` | List of either names of font or ``{'cursive', | # | | 'fantasy', 'monospace', 'sans', 'sans serif', | # | | 'sans-serif', 'serif'}``. | # | | | # +---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ # | ``'font.style'`` | The default style, ex ``'normal'``, | # | | ``'italic'``. | # | | | # +---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ # | ``'font.variant'`` | Default variant, ex ``'normal'``, ``'small-caps'`` | # | | (untested) | # +---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ # | ``'font.stretch'`` | Default stretch, ex ``'normal'``, ``'condensed'`` | # | | (incomplete) | # | | | # +---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ # | ``'font.weight'`` | Default weight. Either string or integer | # | | | # | | | # +---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ # | ``'font.size'`` | Default font size in points. Relative font sizes | # | | (``'large'``, ``'x-small'``) are computed against | # | | this size. | # +---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ # # The mapping between the family aliases (``{'cursive', 'fantasy', # 'monospace', 'sans', 'sans serif', 'sans-serif', 'serif'}``) and actual font names # is controlled by the following rcParams: # # # +------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ # | family alias | rcParam with mappings | # +==========================================+================================+ # | ``'serif'`` | ``'font.serif'`` | # +------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ # | ``'monospace'`` | ``'font.monospace'`` | # +------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ # | ``'fantasy'`` | ``'font.fantasy'`` | # +------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ # | ``'cursive'`` | ``'font.cursive'`` | # +------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ # | ``{'sans', 'sans serif', 'sans-serif'}`` | ``'font.sans-serif'`` | # +------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ # # # which are lists of font names. # # Text with non-latin glyphs # ========================== # # As of v2.0 the :ref:`default font `, DejaVu, contains # glyphs for many western alphabets, but not other scripts, such as Chinese, # Korean, or Japanese. # # To set the default font to be one that supports the code points you # need, prepend the font name to ``'font.family'`` or the desired alias # lists :: # # matplotlib.rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['Source Han Sans TW', 'sans-serif'] # # or set it in your :file:`.matplotlibrc` file:: # # font.sans-serif: Source Han Sans TW, Arial, sans-serif # # To control the font used on per-artist basis use the ``'name'``, # ``'fontname'`` or ``'fontproperties'`` kwargs documented :doc:`above # `. # # # On linux, `fc-list `__ can be a # useful tool to discover the font name; for example :: # # $ fc-list :lang=zh family # Noto to Sans Mono CJK TC,Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Bold # Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC Medium # Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC DemiLight # Noto Sans CJK KR,Noto Sans CJK KR Black # Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC Black # Noto Sans Mono CJK TC,Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Regular # Noto Sans CJK SC,Noto Sans CJK SC Light # # lists all of the fonts that support Chinese. #