Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend font color

I misunderstood your question, musik. My apologies.

Ted


On 18 September 2010 02:15, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM, musik <xi....@gm...> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there a way to set the legend font color? I am plotting multiple sets
>> of
>> data using different colors. I basically want to set each legend font
>> color
>> the same as the corresponding data line color. Here is an example.
>>
>> x = arange(0,10,0.1)
>> y1 = sin(x)
>> y2 = cos(x)
>>
>> plot(x,y1,'r-',x,y2,'b--')
>>
>> I want the legend font for y1 to be in red and the legend font for y2 to
>> be
>> in blue.
>>
>> Can anybody help? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
> musik,
>
> I am not aware of any easy way to control the font properties for each
> individual item in a legend box.  I would suppose that it would be possible
> to obtain the list of Text objects from the legend object (*after* creating
> the legend object), and then modify their color properties based on the
> string that it contains.  Note that I have never personally tried this.
>
> As far as I can tell, the text for the legend elements are black by
> default.  Note that you can set the font properties for all Text objects in
> a legend when creating the legend with the 'prop' kwarg.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Ben Root
>
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