.. _sphx_glr_gallery_recipes_placing_text_boxes.py: Placing text boxes ================== When decorating axes with text boxes, two useful tricks are to place the text in axes coordinates (see :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_advanced_transforms_tutorial.py`), so the text doesn't move around with changes in x or y limits. You can also use the ``bbox`` property of text to surround the text with a :class:`~matplotlib.patches.Patch` instance -- the ``bbox`` keyword argument takes a dictionary with keys that are Patch properties. .. image:: /gallery/recipes/images/sphx_glr_placing_text_boxes_001.png :align: center .. code-block:: python import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt np.random.seed(1234) fig, ax = plt.subplots() x = 30*np.random.randn(10000) mu = x.mean() median = np.median(x) sigma = x.std() textstr = '$\mu=%.2f$\n$\mathrm{median}=%.2f$\n$\sigma=%.2f$' % (mu, median, sigma) ax.hist(x, 50) # these are matplotlib.patch.Patch properties props = dict(boxstyle='round', facecolor='wheat', alpha=0.5) # place a text box in upper left in axes coords ax.text(0.05, 0.95, textstr, transform=ax.transAxes, fontsize=14, verticalalignment='top', bbox=props) **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 0.040 seconds) .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: placing_text_boxes.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: placing_text_boxes.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_