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Legend Shadow in Python. Here, we are going to learn the legend shadow and its Python implementation.
Submitted by Anuj Singh, on July 20, 2020

It helps in the different look of the legend and also the most used feature in many presentations.

matplotlib.pyplot.legend(shadow=True)

Python code for legend shadow

# Data Visualization using Python
# Adding a Legend Shadow

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = np.linspace(0, 2, 100)

# Example 1
plt.figure()
plt.plot(x, x+2, 'o', color='orange', label='linear')  
plt.plot(x, x**2, linewidth=2.0, color='purple', label='quadratic')  
plt.plot(x, x**3, label='cubic')
plt.xlabel('x label')
plt.ylabel('y label')
plt.title("Legend with Shadow")
plt.grid()
plt.legend(shadow=True)

# Example 2
plt.figure()
x = np.linspace(0.0, 5.0)
y = x*x
plt.subplot(2, 1, 2)
plt.plot(x, y, 'g.-',label='quadratic')
plt.plot(x,x, '.-', color='purple', label='linear')
plt.title('Legend with Shadow')
plt.xlabel('numbers')
plt.ylabel('Square')
plt.legend(shadow=True)
plt.grid()
plt.show()

Output:

Output is as figure