.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/watermark_text.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. 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_text_labels_and_annotations_watermark_text.py: ============== Text watermark ============== A watermark effect can be achieved by drawing a semi-transparent text. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-25 .. code-block:: default import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Fixing random state for reproducibility np.random.seed(19680801) fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(np.random.rand(20), '-o', ms=20, lw=2, alpha=0.7, mfc='orange') ax.grid() ax.text(0.5, 0.5, 'created with matplotlib', transform=ax.transAxes, fontsize=40, color='gray', alpha=0.5, ha='center', va='center', rotation='30') plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_watermark_text_001.png :alt: watermark text :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 26-33 ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 34-37 .. code-block:: default import matplotlib matplotlib.figure.Figure.text .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_watermark_text.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: watermark_text.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: watermark_text.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_