Concatenating text objects with different properties

The example strings together several Text objects with different properties (e.g., color or font), positioning each one after the other. The first Text is created directly using text; all subsequent ones are created with annotate, which allows positioning the Text's lower left corner at the lower right corner (xy=(1, 0)) of the previous one (xycoords=text).

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.rcParams["font.size"] = 20
ax = plt.figure().add_subplot(xticks=[], yticks=[])

# The first word, created with text().
text = ax.text(.1, .5, "Matplotlib", color="red")
# Subsequent words, positioned with annotate(), relative to the preceding one.
text = ax.annotate(
    " says,", xycoords=text, xy=(1, 0), verticalalignment="bottom",
    color="gold", weight="bold")  # custom properties
text = ax.annotate(
    " hello", xycoords=text, xy=(1, 0), verticalalignment="bottom",
    color="green", style="italic")  # custom properties
text = ax.annotate(
    " world!", xycoords=text, xy=(1, 0), verticalalignment="bottom",
    color="blue", family="serif")  # custom properties

plt.show()