Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

How it works...

Here is the explanation of the code:

• font is the dictionary of various text attributes that we want to apply to every text item:
  • family and name represent the font family and font name
  • style represents whether it is italic or normal
  • weight represents whether it is bold
  • size represents the font size
• t = np.linspace(0.0, 5.0, 100) defines 100 points in the range of 0.0 to 5.0 with equal spacing in between them
• y is defined as a function of sin, exponential, and t
• plt.title(), plt.xlabel(), and plt.ylabel() all are familiar to you by now, but we are adding an additionalfontdict argument that provides specific parameters to defined attributes in the dictionary
• plt.text(2, 0.65, r'$\sin(2 \pi t) \exp(-t/2)$', fontdict=font) ...