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

[Andreas H. <li...@hi...>]

Hi Francesco,

>>>> 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)

Thanks - that did the trick :)

Cheers, A.