How to put the legend out of the plot?

Question

I have a series of 20 plots (not subplots) to be made in a single figure. I want the legend to be outside of the box. At the same time, I do not want to change the axes, as the size of the figure gets reduced. Kindly help me for the following queries: 1. I want to keep the legend box outside the plot area. (I want the legend to be outside at the right side of the plot area). 2. Is there anyway that I reduce the font size of the text inside the legend box, so that the size of the legend box will be small.

Answer 1

So, you can place a legend outside of the plotting region by using the "bbox_to_anchor" and "loc" parameters provided to the "legend" function, and that should let you position the legend outside and position relative to the axes. AS far as font size goes, chagne the legend text font size by using the "fontsize" param. I'd also suggest using the "tight_layout()" option to automatically have matplotlib adjust the plotsize to accommodate the legend.