How do I change the font size of the data in the table in Matplotlib?

Question

I have taken one of the solutions from this page How do I plot only a table in Matplotlib?

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

# hide axes
fig.patch.set_visible(False)
ax.axis('off')
ax.axis('tight')

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10, 4), columns=list('ABCD'))

ax.table(cellText=df.values, colLabels=df.columns, loc='center')

fig.tight_layout()

plt.show()

adding this didn't make any difference to the font size

ax.table(cellText=df.values, colLabels=df.columns, loc='center',fontsize=14)

how else can I change the size?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '22 at 19:22

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Just add this line before plt.show:

plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 14})

answered Mar 21 '22 at 19:22

skowalak

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nope that didnt work – user13412850 Mar 21 '22 at 21:01
Weird, it worked for me with your code. Have you tried the proposed solution in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39566040/10056232 – skowalak Mar 21 '22 at 21:15
not sure if thats helpful, I think I got the answer but the index of the dataframe is causing issues. am going to close this Qs and start another thread. – user13412850 Mar 22 '22 at 09:57

How do I change the font size of the data in the table in Matplotlib?

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