How to change the text color of font in legend?

Question

Is there a way to change the font color of the legend in a matplotlib plot?

Specially in occasions where the background of the plot is dark, the default black text in

Answer 1

Because plt.setp broadcasts over iterables, you can also modify the text color in one line:

# Show some cool graphs
legend = plt.legend()
plt.setp(legend.get_texts(), color='w')

The last line will apply the colour to all elements in the collection of texts.