Re: [Matplotlib-users] Placing a 'title' inside a legend

Hi Andreas,

2012/7/27 Andreas Hilboll <li...@hi...>:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> 2012/7/27 Andreas Hilboll <li...@hi...>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to place something like a 'title' inside a legend's box. In my
>>> specific case, I have a legend with 5 entries, arranged in 5 columns, so
>>> they're horizontally next to each other in one row. Now what I'd like to
>>> have is inside the legend's box a first row (above the legend entries),
>>> where I can write some text.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> The keyword 'title' in legend
>> (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.legend)
>> should work.
>
> Almost embarassingly simple ... however: It looks like the title is in a
> smaller font size than the other legend texts. Do I have some control
> about the font size of the legend's title? Couldn't find anything in the
> plt.legend docstring (I'm on 1.1.1).

try:
l = ax.legend( patches, labels, ..., title="legend title")
t = l.get_title()  #get the text object containing the title
t.set_fontsize(30)  #set the font size

you can merge the last two lines together l.get_title().set_fontsize(30)

Francesco

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