.. 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_layout.py: =========== Text Layout =========== Create text with different alignment and rotation. .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.patches as patches fig = plt.figure() left, width = .25, .5 bottom, height = .25, .5 right = left + width top = bottom + height # Draw a rectangle in figure coordinates ((0, 0) is bottom left and (1, 1) is # upper right). p = patches.Rectangle((left, bottom), width, height, fill=False) fig.add_artist(p) # Figure.text (aka. plt.figtext) behaves like Axes.text (aka. plt.text), with # the sole exception that the coordinates are relative to the figure ((0, 0) is # bottom left and (1, 1) is upper right). fig.text(left, bottom, 'left top', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top') fig.text(left, bottom, 'left bottom', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='bottom') fig.text(right, top, 'right bottom', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='bottom') fig.text(right, top, 'right top', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='top') fig.text(right, bottom, 'center top', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='top') fig.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'right center', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical') fig.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'left center', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical') fig.text(0.5*(left+right), 0.5*(bottom+top), 'middle', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', fontsize=20, color='red') fig.text(right, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'centered', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical') fig.text(left, top, 'rotated\nwith newlines', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', rotation=45) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_text_layout_001.png :alt: text layout :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.add_artist matplotlib.figure.Figure.text .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_text_layout.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_layout.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_layout.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_