# Julia PyPlot: how to assign multiple colors to legend
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pyplot-how-to-assign-multiple-colors-to-legend/50177
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [November 15, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pyplot-how-to-assign-multiple-colors-to-legend/50177 "2020-11-15T08:54:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Luigi\_Marongiu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Luigi_Marongiu)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pyplot-how-to-assign-multiple-colors-to-legend/50177/1 "2020-11-15T08:54:11Z")
Hello,
I am assigning the color of a plot drawn with PyPlot manually, I need to assign the same color to the legend. How can I control the color parameter?
I am using the following but it gives me an error:
```julia
legend(["A", "B", "C"],
color = ["blue", "red", "green"],
loc="best")
```
What is the correct syntax?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@jishnub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jishnub)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pyplot-how-to-assign-multiple-colors-to-legend/50177/2 "2020-11-15T13:59:23Z")
if you’re looking to color the text in the legend, one way to do it by looping over the text objects after creating the legend.
```julia
l = legend(["A", "B", "C"], loc="best")
for t in l.get_texts()
if t.get_text() == "A"
setp(t, color="blue")
elseif t.get_text() == "B"
setp(t, color="red")
elseif t.get_text() == "C"
setp(t, color="green")
end
end
```
The loop may be condensed using broadcasting:
```julia
((t,c)->setp(t, color=c)).(l.get_texts(), ["blue", "red", "green"]);
```
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### Author:  [@Luigi\_Marongiu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Luigi_Marongiu)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-pyplot-how-to-assign-multiple-colors-to-legend/50177/3 "2020-11-15T17:00:55Z")
Thank you, but the color of text I found I could change it directly with `labelcolor = ["blue", "red", "green"]`.
I am looking for the same construct but for the color of the lines (and, prospectively, the icons)…