Matplotlib : making a colored markers legend from scratch

Question

In Matplotlib, i\'m trying to make a legend with colored \"markers\" like this one :

this one has been made using the scatter function, but is

Answer 1

You could subclass the HandlerBase to create a handler from a tuple of (color, marker).

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.legend_handler import HandlerBase

list_color  = ["c", "gold", "crimson"]
list_mak    = ["d","s","o"]
list_lab    = ['Marker 1','Marker 2','Marker 3']

ax = plt.gca()

class MarkerHandler(HandlerBase):
    def create_artists(self, legend, tup,xdescent, ydescent,
                        width, height, fontsize,trans):
        return [plt.Line2D([width/2], [height/2.],ls="",
                       marker=tup[1],color=tup[0], transform=trans)]


ax.legend(list(zip(list_color,list_mak)), list_lab, 
          handler_map={tuple:MarkerHandler()}) 

plt.show()