.. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_text_fontdict.py: ======================================================= Controlling style of text and labels using a dictionary ======================================================= This example shows how to share parameters across many text objects and labels by creating a dictionary of options passed across several functions. .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_text_fontdict_001.png :align: center .. code-block:: python import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt font = {'family': 'serif', 'color': 'darkred', 'weight': 'normal', 'size': 16, } x = np.linspace(0.0, 5.0, 100) y = np.cos(2*np.pi*x) * np.exp(-x) plt.plot(x, y, 'k') plt.title('Damped exponential decay', fontdict=font) plt.text(2, 0.65, r'$\cos(2 \pi t) \exp(-t)$', fontdict=font) plt.xlabel('time (s)', fontdict=font) plt.ylabel('voltage (mV)', fontdict=font) # Tweak spacing to prevent clipping of ylabel plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.15) 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_fontdict.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_fontdict.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_