

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_pyplots_text_commands.py:


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Text Commands
=============

Plotting text of many different kinds.




.. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_text_commands_001.png
    :align: center





.. code-block:: python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    fig = plt.figure()
    fig.suptitle('bold figure suptitle', fontsize=14, fontweight='bold')

    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
    fig.subplots_adjust(top=0.85)
    ax.set_title('axes title')

    ax.set_xlabel('xlabel')
    ax.set_ylabel('ylabel')

    ax.text(3, 8, 'boxed italics text in data coords', style='italic',
            bbox={'facecolor':'red', 'alpha':0.5, 'pad':10})

    ax.text(2, 6, r'an equation: $E=mc^2$', fontsize=15)

    ax.text(3, 2, u'unicode: Institut f\374r Festk\366rperphysik')

    ax.text(0.95, 0.01, 'colored text in axes coords',
            verticalalignment='bottom', horizontalalignment='right',
            transform=ax.transAxes,
            color='green', fontsize=15)


    ax.plot([2], [1], 'o')
    ax.annotate('annotate', xy=(2, 1), xytext=(3, 4),
                arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black', shrink=0.05))

    ax.axis([0, 10, 0, 10])

    plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.097 seconds)



.. container:: sphx-glr-footer


  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Python source code: text_commands.py <text_commands.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_commands.ipynb <text_commands.ipynb>`

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io>`_
