To adjust the size of a matplotlib legend box, we can use borderpad arguments in the legend method.
Steps
Create line1 and line2 using two lists with different line widths.
To place a legend on the figure and to adjust the size of legend box, use borderpad=2 in legend() method.
To display the figure, use show() method.
Example
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.00, 3.50] plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True line1, = plt.plot([1, 5, 1, 7], linewidth=0.7) line2, = plt.plot([5, 1, 7, 1], linewidth=2.0) plt.legend([line1, line2], ["line1", "line2"], bbox_to_anchor=(0.35, 1.0), borderpad=2) plt.show()
Output
