Text watermark

A watermark effect can be achieved by drawing a semi-transparent text.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)


fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(np.random.rand(20), '-o', ms=20, lw=2, alpha=0.7, mfc='orange')
ax.grid()

ax.text(0.5, 0.5, 'created with matplotlib', transform=ax.transAxes,
        fontsize=40, color='gray', alpha=0.5,
        ha='center', va='center', rotation='30')

plt.show()

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References

The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.figure.Figure.text

Out:

<function Figure.text at 0x7fba54ae5940>