How do you just show the text label in plot legend? (e.g. remove a label's line in the legend)

Question

I want to show the text for a line's label in the legend, but not a line too (As shown in the figure below):

I have tried to minimise the legend's line and label, and overwrite only the new-label too (as in the code below). However, the legend brings both back.

    legend = ax.legend(loc=0, shadow=False)      for label in legend.get_lines():          label.set_linewidth(0.0)      for label in legend.get_texts():          label.set_fontsize(0)       ax.legend(loc=0, title='New Title') 

Answer 1

At that point, it's arguably easier to just use annotate.

For example:

import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  data = np.random.normal(0, 1, 1000).cumsum()  fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(data) ax.annotate('Label', xy=(-12, -12), xycoords='axes points',             size=14, ha='right', va='top',             bbox=dict(boxstyle='round', fc='w')) plt.show() 

However, if you did want to use legend, here's how you'd do it. You'll need to explicitly hide the legend handles in addition to setting their size to 0 and removing their padding.

import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  data = np.random.normal(0, 1, 1000).cumsum()  fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(data, label='Label')  leg = ax.legend(handlelength=0, handletextpad=0, fancybox=True) for item in leg.legendHandles:     item.set_visible(False) plt.show()