.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_statistics_boxplot_color.py: ================================= Box plots with custom fill colors ================================= This plot illustrates how to create two types of box plots (rectangular and notched), and how to fill them with custom colors by accessing the properties of the artists of the box plots. Additionally, the ``labels`` parameter is used to provide x-tick labels for each sample. A good general reference on boxplots and their history can be found here: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/boxplots.pdf .. image:: /gallery/statistics/images/sphx_glr_boxplot_color_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np # Random test data np.random.seed(19680801) all_data = [np.random.normal(0, std, size=100) for std in range(1, 4)] labels = ['x1', 'x2', 'x3'] fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2, figsize=(9, 4)) # rectangular box plot bplot1 = axes[0].boxplot(all_data, vert=True, # vertical box alignment patch_artist=True, # fill with color labels=labels) # will be used to label x-ticks axes[0].set_title('Rectangular box plot') # notch shape box plot bplot2 = axes[1].boxplot(all_data, notch=True, # notch shape vert=True, # vertical box alignment patch_artist=True, # fill with color labels=labels) # will be used to label x-ticks axes[1].set_title('Notched box plot') # fill with colors colors = ['pink', 'lightblue', 'lightgreen'] for bplot in (bplot1, bplot2): for patch, color in zip(bplot['boxes'], colors): patch.set_facecolor(color) # adding horizontal grid lines for ax in axes: ax.yaxis.grid(True) ax.set_xlabel('Three separate samples') ax.set_ylabel('Observed values') plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_statistics_boxplot_color.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: boxplot_color.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: boxplot_color.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_