.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/introductory/legend.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_introductory_legend.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_introductory_legend.py:


======
Legend
======

The legend can be put using ``ax.legend`` in the same way as Matplotlib.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-24



.. image-sg:: /gallery/introductory/images/sphx_glr_legend_001.svg
   :alt: legend
   :srcset: /gallery/introductory/images/sphx_glr_legend_001.svg
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import numpy as np

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import mpltern


    ax = plt.subplot(projection="ternary")

    np.random.seed(19680801)
    for i in range(4):
        t, l, r = np.random.dirichlet(alpha=(2.0, 2.0, 2.0), size=10).T
        ax.scatter(t, l, r, alpha=0.5, label=i)

    ax.legend()

    plt.show()


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_introductory_legend.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: legend.ipynb <legend.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: legend.py <legend.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_