Re: [Matplotlib-users] Changing fontsize in legend

[Robert L. <ro...@le...>]

kristen kaasbjerg wrote:
> Hi again
> Working with legend I've encountered another problem.
> Changing the fontsize in a legend seems to be a little
> harder than first assumed. Is there an easy way to do
> this??

 From the mailing list a couple of days ago...

You need to pass in a FontProperties instance that specifies the size you want:

prop = FontProperties(size="x-small')

size    - Either an absolute value of xx-small, x-small, small,
           medium, large, x-large, xx-large; or a relative value
           of smaller or larger; or an absolute font size, e.g. 12;
           or scalable

i.e. lgnd = ax.legend((lines, labels, prop = FontProperties(size="x-small'), 
..other_params_as_required)

Robert

PS This looks like something to add to my 'Getting Started' document....