# Gadfly label coloring

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gadfly-label-coloring/37374>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, package, plotting, gadfly\
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gadfly-label-coloring/37374 "2020-04-10T23:50:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![monty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/monty/32/44234_2.png) [@monty](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/monty)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gadfly-label-coloring/37374/1 "2020-04-10T23:50:24Z")

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How to color the labels with the color of the dots?

```julia
Gadfly.plot([1 2 "a";3 4 "b"; 3 2 "c"], x=Gadfly.Col.value(1), y=Gadfly.Col.value(2), label=Gadfly.Col.value(3), color=Gadfly.Col.value(3), Gadfly.Geom.point, Gadfly.Geom.label, Gadfly.Theme(highlight_width=0Gadfly.pt, point_label_font_size=18Gadfly.pt))

```

this does not work

```julia
Gadfly.plot([1 2 "a";3 4 "b"; 3 2 "c"], x=Gadfly.Col.value(1), y=Gadfly.Col.value(2), label=Gadfly.Col.value(3), color=Gadfly.Col.value(3), color_label=Gadfly.Col.value(3), Gadfly.Geom.point, Gadfly.Geom.label, Gadfly.Theme(highlight_width=0Gadfly.pt, point_label_font_size=18Gadfly.pt))

```

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**Author:** ![Mattriks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mattriks/32/351_2.png) [@Mattriks](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mattriks)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gadfly-label-coloring/37374/2 "2020-04-11T00:26:51Z")

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Yes this is an outstanding issue: [Feature request: enable color aesthetic on Geom.label · Issue #638 · GiovineItalia/Gadfly.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/GiovineItalia/Gadfly.jl/issues/638)

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**Author:** ![monty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/monty/32/44234_2.png) [@monty](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/monty)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 4:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gadfly-label-coloring/37374/3 "2020-10-07T04:46:21Z")

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Any update on this issue?