import matplotlib.patches as mpatches import matplotlib.pyplot as plt styles = mpatches.ArrowStyle.get_styles() ncol=2 nrow = len(styles) // ncol + 1 figheight = (nrow+0.5) fig1 = plt.figure(1, (4.*ncol/1.5, figheight/1.5)) fontsize = 0.2 * 70 ax = fig1.add_axes([0, 0, 1, 1], frameon=False, aspect=1.) ax.set_xlim(0, 4*ncol) ax.set_ylim(0, figheight) for i, (stylename, styleclass) in enumerate(sorted(styles.items())): x = 3.2 + (i//nrow)*4 y = (figheight - 0.7 - i%nrow) # /figheight p = mpatches.Circle((x, y), 0.2, fc="w") ax.add_patch(p) ax.annotate(stylename, (x, y), (x-1.2, y), #xycoords="figure fraction", textcoords="figure fraction", ha="right", va="center", size=fontsize, arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle=stylename, patchB=p, shrinkA=5, shrinkB=5, fc="w", ec="k", connectionstyle="arc3,rad=-0.05", ), bbox=dict(boxstyle="square", fc="w")) ax.xaxis.set_visible(False) ax.yaxis.set_visible(False) plt.draw() plt.show()