You can set an individual font size for the legend by adjusting the prop keyword. This takes a dictionary of keywords corresponding to matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties properties. See the documentation for legend: Keyword arguments: It is also possible, as of version 1.2.1, to use the keyword fontsize.
I have a series of 20 plots (not subplots) to be made in a single figure. I want the legend to be outside of the box. At the same time, I do not want to change the axes, as the size of the figure gets reduced. Kindly help me for the following queries: I want … Read more
This is how I have solved this problem in the past: This will plot the additional points, but because the coordinates are at NaN they will not be visible on the plot itself: EDIT 26/10/2016: My original answer results in greyed out legend entries in 2016b. The updated code above works, but the answer below … Read more
EDIT: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING THE ANSWER FROM ImportanceOfBeingErnest: How to put the legend out of the plot This one is easier to understand: now play with the to coordinates (x,y). For loc you can use:
EDIT: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING THE ANSWER FROM ImportanceOfBeingErnest: How to put the legend out of the plot This one is easier to understand: now play with the to coordinates (x,y). For loc you can use:
It might be late but for anyone with the same issue the solution is using the method legend() for the corresponding ax not as for plt