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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Legend with \"loc=best\" does not try to avoid text","articleBody":"I had this issue, and found almost exactly the same problem on Stack Overflow ([link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70656115/best-location-for-legend-is-covering-text)) \r\n\r\nBriefly, the pyplot.legend does not try to avoid pyplot.text. Here is a minimal example: \r\n```\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nx = [1, 2]\r\nplt.plot(x, x, label='plot name')\r\nplt.gca().text(0.05, 0.95, 'some text', transform=plt.gca().transAxes, verticalalignment='top')\r\nplt.gca().legend(loc='best')\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\nresulting in legend overlaying the text like this:\r\n![Figure_1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2942742/175010450-9a80083d-f54f-4a95-a281-f82f5af34b77.png)\r\n\r\nBTW, my matplotlib version is 3.4.3","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ym3141","@type":"Person","name":"ym3141"},"datePublished":"2022-06-22T10:44:10.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/23323/matplotlib/issues/23323"}