Annotation arrow style reference

Overview of the available ArrowStyle settings. These are used for the arrowstyle parameter of annotate and FancyArrowPatch.

Each style can be configured with a set of parameters, which are stated along with their default values.

import inspect
import itertools
import re

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from matplotlib.patches import ArrowStyle

styles = ArrowStyle.get_styles()
ncol = 2
nrow = (len(styles) + 1) // ncol
gridspec_kw = dict(wspace=0, hspace=0.05, left=0, right=1, bottom=0, top=1)
fig, axs = plt.subplots(1 + nrow, ncol,
                        figsize=(4 * ncol, 1 + nrow), gridspec_kw=gridspec_kw)
for ax in axs.flat:
    ax.set_xlim(-0.1, 4)
    ax.set_axis_off()
for ax in axs[0, :]:
    ax.text(0, 0.5, "arrowstyle", size="large", color="tab:blue")
    ax.text(1.4, .5, "default parameters", size="large")
for ax, (stylename, stylecls) in zip(axs[1:, :].T.flat, styles.items()):
    # draw dot and annotation with arrowstyle
    l, = ax.plot(1.25, 0, "o", color="darkgrey")
    ax.annotate(stylename, (1.25, 0), (0, 0),
                size="large", color="tab:blue", va="center", family="monospace",
                arrowprops=dict(
                    arrowstyle=stylename, connectionstyle="arc3,rad=0",
                    color="black", shrinkA=5, shrinkB=5, patchB=l,
                ),
                bbox=dict(boxstyle="square", fc="w", ec="darkgrey"))
    # draw default parameters
    # wrap at every nth comma (n = 1 or 2, depending on text length)
    s = str(inspect.signature(stylecls))[1:-1]
    n = 2 if s.count(',') > 3 else 1
    ax.text(1.4, 0,
            re.sub(', ', lambda m, c=itertools.count(1): m.group()
                   if next(c) % n else '\n', s),
            verticalalignment="center", color="0.3")

plt.show()

References

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

• matplotlib.patches

• matplotlib.patches.ArrowStyle

• matplotlib.patches.ArrowStyle.get_styles

• matplotlib.axes.Axes.annotate