I’m trying to plot a graph with a nicely formatted legend.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
test_label ="""\
CL :1.2565
CM :1.2565
Tot CD :1.2565"""
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
foil=[(0, 1), (0, 0), 'black']
ax.plot(*foil, label=test_label)
plt.xlim(-0.5, 1.5)
plt.ylim(-0.75, 0.75)
plt.legend(frameon=False)
plt.show(block=False)
As you can see the test_label is nicely formatted (vertically aligned colons), but this alignment is not preserved when I do the actual plot.
Could anyone please suggest a way to place this legend in such a way that all colons are aligned vertically ?
>Solution :
You might want to change the font type into monospace.
Code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
test_label ="""\
CL :1.2565
CM :1.2565
Tot CD :1.2565"""
# Change the font type.
plt.rcParams['font.family'] = 'monospace'
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
foil=[(0, 1), (0, 0), 'black']
ax.plot(*foil, label=test_label)
plt.xlim(-0.5, 1.5)
plt.ylim(-0.75, 0.75)
plt.legend(frameon=False)
plt.show(block=False)
Output:
