""" ================== Figure legend demo ================== Instead of plotting a legend on each axis, a legend for all the artists on all the sub-axes of a figure can be plotted instead. """ import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2) x = np.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.02) y1 = np.sin(2 * np.pi * x) y2 = np.exp(-x) l1, = axs[0].plot(x, y1) l2, = axs[0].plot(x, y2, marker='o') y3 = np.sin(4 * np.pi * x) y4 = np.exp(-2 * x) l3, = axs[1].plot(x, y3, color='tab:green') l4, = axs[1].plot(x, y4, color='tab:red', marker='^') fig.legend((l1, l2), ('Line 1', 'Line 2'), 'upper left') fig.legend((l3, l4), ('Line 3', 'Line 4'), 'upper right') plt.tight_layout() plt.show()