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# Marker filling-styles

Reference for marker fill-styles included with Matplotlib.

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from matplotlib.lines import Line2D

    points = np.ones(5)  # Draw 3 points for each line
    text_style = dict(horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='center',
                      fontsize=12, fontdict={'family': 'monospace'})
    marker_style = dict(color='cornflowerblue', linestyle=':', marker='o',
                        markersize=15, markerfacecoloralt='gray')

    def format_axes(ax):
        ax.margins(0.2)
        ax.set_axis_off()

    def nice_repr(text):
        return repr(text).lstrip('u')

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    # Plot all fill styles.
    for y, fill_style in enumerate(Line2D.fillStyles):
        ax.text(-0.5, y, nice_repr(fill_style), **text_style)
        ax.plot(y * points, fillstyle=fill_style, **marker_style)
        format_axes(ax)
        ax.set_title('fill style')

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.043 seconds)

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