Add text to the Axes.

Add the text s to the Axes at location x, y in data coordinates, with a default horizontalalignment on the left and verticalalignment at the baseline. See /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/text_alignment.

Parameters¶

x, yfloat

The position to place the text. By default, this is in data coordinates. The coordinate system can be changed using the transform parameter.

sstr

The text.

fontdict : dict, default: None

Discouraged

The use of fontdict is discouraged. Parameters should be passed as individual keyword arguments or using dictionary-unpacking text(..., **fontdict).

A dictionary to override the default text properties. If fontdict is None, the defaults are determined by .rcParams.

Returns¶

.Text

The created .Text instance.

Other Parameters¶

**kwargs~matplotlib.text.Text properties.

Other miscellaneous text parameters.

Properties: agg_filter: a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array and two offsets from the bottom left corner of the image alpha: scalar or None animated: bool antialiased: bool backgroundcolor: :mpltype:`color` bbox: dict with properties for .patches.FancyBboxPatch clip_box: unknown clip_on: unknown clip_path: unknown color or c: :mpltype:`color` figure: ~matplotlib.figure.Figure fontfamily or family or fontname: {FONTNAME, ‘serif’, ‘sans-serif’, ‘cursive’, ‘fantasy’, ‘monospace’} fontproperties or font or font_properties: .font_manager.FontProperties or str or pathlib.Path fontsize or size: float or {‘xx-small’, ‘x-small’, ‘small’, ‘medium’, ‘large’, ‘x-large’, ‘xx-large’} fontstretch or stretch: {a numeric value in range 0-1000, ‘ultra-condensed’, ‘extra-condensed’, ‘condensed’, ‘semi-condensed’, ‘normal’, ‘semi-expanded’, ‘expanded’, ‘extra-expanded’, ‘ultra-expanded’} fontstyle or style: {‘normal’, ‘italic’, ‘oblique’} fontvariant or variant: {‘normal’, ‘small-caps’} fontweight or weight: {a numeric value in range 0-1000, ‘ultralight’, ‘light’, ‘normal’, ‘regular’, ‘book’, ‘medium’, ‘roman’, ‘semibold’, ‘demibold’, ‘demi’, ‘bold’, ‘heavy’, ‘extra bold’, ‘black’} gid: str horizontalalignment or ha: {‘left’, ‘center’, ‘right’} in_layout: bool label: object linespacing: float (multiple of font size) math_fontfamily: str mouseover: bool multialignment or ma: {‘left’, ‘right’, ‘center’} parse_math: bool path_effects: list of .AbstractPathEffect picker: None or bool or float or callable position: (float, float) rasterized: bool rotation: float or {‘vertical’, ‘horizontal’} rotation_mode: {None, ‘default’, ‘anchor’} sketch_params: (scale: float, length: float, randomness: float) snap: bool or None text: object transform: ~matplotlib.transforms.Transform transform_rotates_text: bool url: str usetex: bool, default: :rc:`text.usetex` verticalalignment or va: {‘baseline’, ‘bottom’, ‘center’, ‘center_baseline’, ‘top’} visible: bool wrap: bool x: float y: float zorder: float

Examples¶

Individual keyword arguments can be used to override any given parameter:

>>> text(x, y, s, fontsize=12)

The default transform specifies that text is in data coords, alternatively, you can specify text in axis coords ((0, 0) is lower-left and (1, 1) is upper-right). The example below places text in the center of the Axes:

>>> text(0.5, 0.5, 'matplotlib', horizontalalignment='center',
...      verticalalignment='center', transform=ax.transAxes)

You can put a rectangular box around the text instance (e.g., to set a background color) by using the keyword bbox. bbox is a dictionary of ~matplotlib.patches.Rectangle properties. For example:

>>> text(x, y, s, bbox=dict(facecolor='red', alpha=0.5))