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rhtica
rhtica

Reputation: 565

How to adjust space between legend markers and labels

I want to adjust space between legend markers and labels. Sometime the space is too much as default. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 43

Views: 53390

Answers (1)

tmdavison
tmdavison

Reputation: 69116

legend() has a kwarg in called handletextpad which will do what you are looking for. By default, this is set to 0.8. From the docs:

handletextpad : float or None

The pad between the legend handle and text. Measured in font-size units.

Default is None which will take the value from the legend.handletextpad rcParam.

So when you call legend, add that kwarg, and experiment with the value. Something like:

ax.legend(handletextpad=0.1)

Consider the following:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(ncols=2)

ax1.plot(range(5), 'ro', label='handletextpad=0.8')
ax2.plot(range(5), 'bo', label='handletextpad=0.1')

ax1.legend()
ax2.legend(handletextpad=0.1)

plt.show()

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Upvotes: 73

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