.. only:: html .. 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_pyplots_text_commands.py: ============= Text Commands ============= Plotting text of many different kinds. .. code-block:: default 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, '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.set(xlim=(0, 10), ylim=(0, 10)) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_text_commands_001.png :alt: bold figure suptitle, axes title :class: sphx-glr-single-img ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: .. code-block:: default import matplotlib matplotlib.figure.Figure.suptitle matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_subplot matplotlib.figure.Figure.subplots_adjust matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlabel matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylabel matplotlib.axes.Axes.text matplotlib.axes.Axes.annotate .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_text_commands.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: text_commands.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_commands.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_