Makie legend text colours

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1

Hello everyone,

Suppose we have the following example:

using GLMakie

f = Figure()
ax = Axis(f[:,:])

for i in 1:5 
    scatter!(
        ax, i, i,
        marker=collect('a':'z')[i],
        colormap=:tab10, colorrange=(1, 10), color=i,
        markersize = 15, label = "this is a label"
    )
end

axislegend(ax, position=:lt)

which generates this plot:

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Is there a straightforward way to make the labels on the legend follow the same colours as the markers they correspond to?

2

You could pass label = Makie.rich("this is a label", color = color_you_want) instead, that should work. But you would have to get the color from the colormap manually.

3

Thanks @asinghvi17, didn’t know that rich text was an option.

edit: the following seems to do the job:

using GLMakie

f = Figure()
ax = Axis(f[:,:])

for i in 1:5 

    col = cgrad(:tab10)[i]
    scatter!(
        ax, i, i,
        marker=collect('a':'z')[i],
        color=col,
        markersize = 15, 
        label = Makie.rich("this is a label", color = col)
    )
end

axislegend(ax, position=:lt)