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<h1>Text properties and layout<a class="headerlink" href="#text-properties-and-layout" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>

Controlling properties of text and its layout with Matplotlib.

The <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/text_api.html#matplotlib.text.Text" title="matplotlib.text.Text"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate">matplotlib.text.Text</code></a> instances have a variety of

properties which can be configured via keyword arguments to the text

commands (e.g., <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.title.html#matplotlib.pyplot.title" title="matplotlib.pyplot.title"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate">title()</code></a>,

<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel.html#matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel" title="matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate">xlabel()</code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.text.html#matplotlib.pyplot.text" title="matplotlib.pyplot.text"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate">text()</code></a>).

</colgroup>

<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Property</th>

<th class="head">Value Type</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tr class="row-even"><td>alpha</td>

<td><a class="reference external" href="https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/ImageMath.html#float" title="(in Pillow (PIL Fork) v7.0.0)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">float</code></a></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>backgroundcolor</td>

<td>any matplotlib <a class="reference internal" href="../colors/colors.html">color</a></td>

</tr>

<td><a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="matplotlib.patches.Rectangle"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Rectangle</code></a> prop dict plus key <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'pad'</code> which is a pad in points</td>

</tr>

<td>a matplotlib.transform.Bbox instance</td>

</tr>

</tr>

<td>a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/path_api.html#matplotlib.path.Path" title="matplotlib.path.Path"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Path</code></a> instance and a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/transformations.html#matplotlib.transforms.Transform" title="matplotlib.transforms.Transform"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Transform</code></a> instance, a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Patch.html#matplotlib.patches.Patch" title="matplotlib.patches.Patch"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Patch</code></a></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>color</td>

<td>any matplotlib <a class="reference internal" href="../colors/colors.html">color</a></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>family</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'serif'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'sans-serif'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'cursive'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'fantasy'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'monospace'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>fontproperties</td>

<td>a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/font_manager_api.html#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties" title="matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">FontProperties</code></a> instance</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>horizontalalignment or ha</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'center'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'right'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'left'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>label</td>

<td>any string</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>linespacing</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>multialignment</td>

<td>[<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'left'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'right'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'center'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>name or fontname</td>

<td>string e.g., [<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'Sans'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'Courier'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'Helvetica'</code> ...]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>picker</td>

<td>[None|float|boolean|callable]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>position</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>rotation</td>

<td>[ angle in degrees | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'vertical'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'horizontal'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>size or fontsize</td>

<td>[ size in points | relative size, e.g., <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'smaller'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'x-large'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>style or fontstyle</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'italic'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'oblique'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<td>string or anything printable with '%s' conversion</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>transform</td>

<td>a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/transformations.html#matplotlib.transforms.Transform" title="matplotlib.transforms.Transform"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Transform</code></a> instance</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>variant</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'small-caps'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>verticalalignment or va</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'center'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'top'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'bottom'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'baseline'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>visible</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>weight or fontweight</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'bold'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'heavy'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'light'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'ultrabold'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'ultralight'</code>]</td>

</tr>

</tr>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>zorder</td>

<td>any number</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

You can lay out text with the alignment arguments

<code class="docutils literal notranslate">horizontalalignment</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">verticalalignment</code>, and

<code class="docutils literal notranslate">multialignment</code>. <code class="docutils literal notranslate">horizontalalignment</code> controls whether the x

positional argument for the text indicates the left, center or right

side of the text bounding box. <code class="docutils literal notranslate">verticalalignment</code> controls whether

the y positional argument for the text indicates the bottom, center or

top side of the text bounding box. <code class="docutils literal notranslate">multialignment</code>, for newline

separated strings only, controls whether the different lines are left,

center or right justified. Here is an example which uses the

<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.text.html#matplotlib.pyplot.text" title="matplotlib.pyplot.text"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate">text()</code></a> command to show the various alignment

possibilities. The use of <code class="docutils literal notranslate">transform=ax.transAxes</code> throughout the

code indicates that the coordinates are given relative to the axes

bounding box, with (0, 0) being the lower left of the axes and (1, 1) the

upper right.

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import matplotlib.patches as patches

# build a rectangle in axes coords

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">width</a> = .25, .5

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">height</a> = .25, .5

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">right</a> = <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a> + <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">width</a>

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a> = <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a> + <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">height</a>

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.figure.Figure.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure" title="View documentation for matplotlib.figure.Figure">fig</a> = <a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.figure.html#matplotlib.pyplot.figure" title="View documentation for matplotlib.pyplot.figure">plt.figure</a>()

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a> = <a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.figure.Figure.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure" title="View documentation for matplotlib.figure.Figure">fig</a>.add_axes([0, 0, 1, 1])

# axes coordinates: (0, 0) is bottom left and (1, 1) is upper right

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="View documentation for matplotlib.patches.Rectangle">p</a> = <a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="View documentation for matplotlib.patches.Rectangle">patches.Rectangle</a>(

(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>), <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">width</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">height</a>,

fill=False, transform=<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.transAxes, clip_on=False

)

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.add_patch(<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="View documentation for matplotlib.patches.Rectangle">p</a>)

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>, 'left top',

horizontalalignment='left',

verticalalignment='top',

transform=<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.transAxes)

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>, 'left bottom',

horizontalalignment='left',

verticalalignment='bottom',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">right</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a>, 'right bottom',

horizontalalignment='right',

verticalalignment='bottom',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">right</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a>, 'right top',

horizontalalignment='right',

verticalalignment='top',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">right</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>, 'center top',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='top',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>, 0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a>), 'right center',

horizontalalignment='right',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation='vertical',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>, 0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a>), 'left center',

horizontalalignment='left',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation='vertical',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">right</a>), 0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a>), 'middle',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='center',

fontsize=20, color='red',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">right</a>, 0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">bottom</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a>), 'centered',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation='vertical',

<a href="../../api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="View documentation for matplotlib.axes.Axes">ax</a>.text(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">left</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="View documentation for builtins.float">top</a>, 'rotated\nwith newlines',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation=45,

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.show.html#matplotlib.pyplot.show" title="View documentation for matplotlib.pyplot.show">plt.show</a>()

</pre></div>

</div>

</div>

<h1>Default Font<a class="headerlink" href="#default-font" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>

The base default font is controlled by a set of rcParams. To set the font

for mathematical expressions, use the rcParams beginning with <code class="docutils literal notranslate">mathtext</code>

(see <a class="reference internal" href="mathtext.html#mathtext-fonts">mathtext</a>).

</colgroup>

<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">rcParam</th>

<th class="head">usage</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.family'</code></td>

<td>List of either names of font or <code class="docutils literal notranslate">{'cursive',

'fantasy', 'monospace', 'sans', 'sans serif',

'sans-serif', 'serif'}</code>.</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.style'</code></td>

<td>The default style, ex <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code>,

<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'italic'</code>.</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.variant'</code></td>

<td>Default variant, ex <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'small-caps'</code>

(untested)</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.stretch'</code></td>

<td>Default stretch, ex <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'condensed'</code>

(incomplete)</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.weight'</code></td>

<td>Default weight. Either string or integer</td>

</tr>

<td>Default font size in points. Relative font sizes

(<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'large'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'x-small'</code>) are computed against

this size.</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

The mapping between the family aliases (<code class="docutils literal notranslate">{'cursive', 'fantasy',

'monospace', 'sans', 'sans serif', 'sans-serif', 'serif'}</code>) and actual font names

is controlled by the following rcParams:

</colgroup>

<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">family alias</th>

<th class="head">rcParam with mappings</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'serif'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.serif'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'monospace'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.monospace'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'fantasy'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.fantasy'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'cursive'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.cursive'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">{'sans', 'sans serif', 'sans-serif'}</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.sans-serif'</code></td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

which are lists of font names.

<h2>Text with non-latin glyphs<a class="headerlink" href="#text-with-non-latin-glyphs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

As of v2.0 the <a class="reference internal" href="../../users/dflt_style_changes.html#default-changes-font">default font</a>, DejaVu, contains

glyphs for many western alphabets, but not other scripts, such as Chinese,

Korean, or Japanese.

To set the default font to be one that supports the code points you

need, prepend the font name to <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.family'</code> or the desired alias

lists

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>matplotlib.rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['Source Han Sans TW', 'sans-serif']

</pre></div>

</div>

or set it in your <code class="file docutils literal notranslate">.matplotlibrc</code> file:

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>font.sans-serif: Source Han Sans TW, Arial, sans-serif

</pre></div>

</div>

To control the font used on per-artist basis use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'name'</code>,

<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'fontname'</code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'fontproperties'</code> kwargs documented <a class="reference internal" href="#">above</a>.

On linux, <a class="reference external" href="https://linux.die.net/man/1/fc-list">fc-list</a> can be a

useful tool to discover the font name; for example

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>$ fc-list :lang=zh family

Noto to Sans Mono CJK TC,Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Bold

Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC Medium

Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC DemiLight

Noto Sans CJK KR,Noto Sans CJK KR Black

Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC Black

Noto Sans Mono CJK TC,Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Regular

Noto Sans CJK SC,Noto Sans CJK SC Light

</pre></div>

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lists all of the fonts that support Chinese.

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