.. _sphx_glr_gallery_pyplots_text_commands.py: ============= Text Commands ============= Plotting text of many different kinds. .. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_text_commands_001.png :align: center .. code-block:: python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() fig.suptitle('bold figure suptitle', fontsize=14, fontweight='bold') ax = fig.add_subplot(111) fig.subplots_adjust(top=0.85) ax.set_title('axes title') ax.set_xlabel('xlabel') ax.set_ylabel('ylabel') ax.text(3, 8, 'boxed italics text in data coords', style='italic', bbox={'facecolor':'red', 'alpha':0.5, 'pad':10}) ax.text(2, 6, r'an equation: $E=mc^2$', fontsize=15) ax.text(3, 2, u'unicode: Institut f\374r Festk\366rperphysik') ax.text(0.95, 0.01, 'colored text in axes coords', verticalalignment='bottom', horizontalalignment='right', transform=ax.transAxes, color='green', fontsize=15) ax.plot([2], [1], 'o') ax.annotate('annotate', xy=(2, 1), xytext=(3, 4), arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black', shrink=0.05)) ax.axis([0, 10, 0, 10]) plt.show() **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 0.018 seconds) .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: text_commands.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_commands.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_