.. 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 .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` 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:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np # 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-sg:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_watermark_text_001.png :alt: watermark text :srcset: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_watermark_text_001.png, /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_watermark_text_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 26-32 .. admonition:: References The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: - `matplotlib.figure.Figure.text` .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_watermark_text.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: watermark_text.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: watermark_text.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_