
.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/watermark_text.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_watermark_text.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_watermark_text.py:


==============
Text watermark
==============

A watermark effect can be achieved by drawing a semi-transparent text.

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.. code-block:: default

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)


    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot(np.random.rand(20), '-o', ms=20, lw=2, alpha=0.7, mfc='orange')
    ax.grid()

    ax.text(0.5, 0.5, 'created with matplotlib', transform=ax.transAxes,
            fontsize=40, color='gray', alpha=0.5,
            ha='center', va='center', rotation='30')

    plt.show()




.. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_watermark_text_001.png
    :alt: watermark text
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img





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------------

References
""""""""""

The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
in this example:

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.. code-block:: default


    import matplotlib
    matplotlib.figure.Figure.text




.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out

 Out:

 .. code-block:: none


    <function Figure.text at 0x7f73be890dc0>




.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_watermark_text.py:


.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer
    :class: sphx-glr-footer-example



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

     :download:`Download Python source code: watermark_text.py <watermark_text.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: watermark_text.ipynb <watermark_text.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot
    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery
    <https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io>`_
