Markers

matplotlib.markers

This module contains functions to handle markers. Used by both the marker functionality of plot and scatter.

All possible markers are defined here:

marker	description
”.”	point
”,”	pixel
“o”	circle
“v”	triangle_down
“^”	triangle_up
“<”	triangle_left
“>”	triangle_right
“1”	tri_down
“2”	tri_up
“3”	tri_left
“4”	tri_right
“8”	octagon
“s”	square
“p”	pentagon
“*”	star
“h”	hexagon1
“H”	hexagon2
“+”	plus
“x”	x
“D”	diamond
“d”	thin_diamond
“|”	vline
“_”	hline
TICKLEFT	tickleft
TICKRIGHT	tickright
TICKUP	tickup
TICKDOWN	tickdown
CARETLEFT	caretleft
CARETRIGHT	caretright
CARETUP	caretup
CARETDOWN	caretdown
“None”	nothing
None	nothing
” “	nothing
“”	nothing
'$...$'	render the string using mathtext.
verts	a list of (x, y) pairs used for Path vertices. The center of the marker is located at (0,0) and the size is normalized.
path	a Path instance.
(numsides, style, angle)	see below

The marker can also be a tuple (numsides, style, angle), which will create a custom, regular symbol.

numsides:

the number of sides

style:

the style of the regular symbol:

Value	Description
0	a regular polygon
1	a star-like symbol
2	an asterisk
3	a circle (numsides and angle is ignored)

angle:

the angle of rotation of the symbol, in degrees

For backward compatibility, the form (verts, 0) is also accepted, but it is equivalent to just verts for giving a raw set of vertices that define the shape.

class matplotlib.markers.MarkerStyle(marker=None, fillstyle=u'full')

Bases: object

MarkerStyle

Parameters:

marker : string or array_like, optional, default: None

See the descriptions of possible markers in the module docstring.

fillstyle : string, optional, default: ‘full’

‘full’, ‘left”, ‘right’, ‘bottom’, ‘top’, ‘none’

Attributes

markers
fillstyles
filled_markers

filled_markers = (u'o', u'v', u'^', u'<', u'>', u'8', u's', u'p', u'*', u'h', u'H', u'D', u'd')

fillstyles = (u'full', u'left', u'right', u'bottom', u'top', u'none')

get_alt_path()

get_alt_transform()

get_capstyle()

get_fillstyle()

get_joinstyle()

get_marker()

get_path()

get_snap_threshold()

get_transform()

is_filled()

markers = {0: u'tickleft', 1: u'tickright', 2: u'tickup', 3: u'tickdown', 4: u'caretleft', u'D': u'diamond', 6: u'caretup', 7: u'caretdown', u's': u'square', u'|': u'vline', None: u'nothing', u'None': u'nothing', u'x': u'x', 5: u'caretright', u'_': u'hline', u'^': u'triangle_up', u' ': u'nothing', u'd': u'thin_diamond', u'h': u'hexagon1', u'+': u'plus', u'*': u'star', u',': u'pixel', u'o': u'circle', u'.': u'point', u'1': u'tri_down', u'p': u'pentagon', u'3': u'tri_left', u'2': u'tri_up', u'4': u'tri_right', u'H': u'hexagon2', u'v': u'triangle_down', u'': u'nothing', u'8': u'octagon', u'<': u'triangle_left', u'>': u'triangle_right'}

set_fillstyle(fillstyle)

Sets fillstyle

Parameters:fillstyle : string amongst known fillstyles

set_marker(marker)