How to adjust the space between legend markers and labels in Matplotlib?

MatplotlibPythonData Visualization

To adjust the space between legend markers and labels, we can use labelspacing in legend method.

Steps

  • Plot lines with label1, label2 and label3.

  • Initialize a space variable to increase or decrease the space between legend markers and label.

  • Use legend method with labelspacing in the arguments.

  • To display the figure, use show() method.

Example

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.00, 3.50]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1.0], label='Label 1')
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1.1], label='Label 2')
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1.2], label='Label 3')
space = 2
plt.legend(labelspacing=space)
plt.show()

Output

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Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Published on 11-May-2021 13:49:32
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