Aliased versus anti-aliased

The example shows aliased versus anti-aliased text.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

size = 128, 16
dpi = 72.0
figsize= size[0] / float(dpi), size[1] / float(dpi)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=figsize, dpi=dpi)
fig.patch.set_alpha(0)
plt.axes([0, 0, 1, 1], frameon=False)

plt.rcParams['text.antialiased'] = True
plt.text(0.5, 0.5, "Anti-aliased", ha='center', va='center')

plt.xlim(0, 1)
plt.ylim(0, 1)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])

plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.010 seconds)