drawmeridians/parallels label text color not changeable

[letmaik]

In the docs of drawparallels it says that any other **kwargs are supplied to ax.text. The problem is that ax.text has a color parameter which I need to set somehow. But color is also a regular keyword of drawparallels which means that it won't get there.

I really, really, really don't want to use something like mpl.rcParams['text.color'] = colors.textcolor.

[jswhit]

You can modify the properties of the text objects returned by drawparallels and drawmeridians, like this:

from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
def setcolor(x, color):
     for m in x:
         for t in x[m][1]:
             t.set_color(color)
m = Basemap(lon_0=0)
m.drawcoastlines()
par = m.drawparallels(np.arange(-90,90,30),labels=[1,0,0,1])
setcolor(par,'r')
merid = m.drawmeridians(np.arange(0,360,60),labels=[1,0,0,1])
setcolor(merid,'r')
plt.show()

[letmaik]

Thanks for the work-around, definitely not straight-forward :)

[jswhit]

Not straightforward, but not hard to figure out once you poke around the objects returned by drawparallels and drawmeridians. I suppose adding a 'textcolor' keyword might not be a bad idea. Are there any other keyword args that conflict with the kwargs passed to ax.text?

[guziy]

Is there fontsize option?

I was also wondering why the labels are not respected by matplotlib's
tight_layout function (maybe that is a question for matplotlib
developers...).

Thanks

2014-03-13 9:52 GMT-04:00 Jeff Whitaker notifications@github.com:

Not straightforward, but not hard to figure out once you poke around the
objects returned by drawparallels and drawmeridians. I suppose adding a
'textcolor' keyword might not be a bad idea. Are there any other keyword
args that conflict with the kwargs passed to ax.test?

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[jswhit]

fontsize will get passed to ax.text.

[BethanPerkins]

Thank you - I needed this too.

[WeatherGod]

This was manually merged into master, and so GitHub never closed this issue automatically. Closing now.