To change the legend font size, you may change the "legend.fontsize" in rcParams. The change will be global. If you want to change the font size of some particular legend, use the appropriate font property as the "prop" keyword.
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=legend#matplotlib.pyplot.legend List of spacing parameters are also available in the above documentation. Most of other spacing parameters are meant to scale with the font size. For legend position, take a look at the below legend guide. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/plotting/legend.html#legend-location However, I guess this will only work if you use svn version. If you're not using svn version, you can have similar result by creating a separate axes. http://www.nabble.com/Stopping-Legend-From-Overlapping-the-Graph-td24213554.html#a24213554 Regards, -JJ On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Chuck Pepe-Ranney<cpep...@mines.edu> wrote: > Hello Users, > > I need some help with formatting a legend for a stacked bar graph. Each bar > is segmented into ~35 categories so my legend ends up being a long mess > overlapping my plot. How can I position my legend outside of the plot and > reduce the spacing and fontsize for the text? > > Thanks, > > - Chuck > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
