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How to use Font Awesome symbol as marker in matplotlib?
To use Font Awesome symbol as a marker, we can take the following steps −
- Set the figure size and adjust the padding between and around the subplots.
- Create a list of symbols; has to be plotted.
- Create x and y data points using numpy.
- Create a new figure or activate an existing figure using figure() method.
- Iterate the symbols and use it while plotting a line.
- To display the figure, use show() method.
Example
import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.50, 3.50] plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True symbols = [u'\u2B21', u'\u263A', u'\u29C6', u'\u2B14', u'\u2B1A', u'\u25A6', u'\u229E', u'\u22A0', u'\u22A1', u'\u20DF'] x = np.arange(10) y = np.arange(10) plt.figure() for i, symbol in enumerate(symbols): y2 = y + 4*i plt.plot(x, y2, '.') for x0, y0 in zip(x, y2): plt.text(x0, y0, symbol, fontname='STIXGeneral', size=15, va='center', ha='center', clip_on=True) plt.show()
Output
Updated on: 03-Aug-2021
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