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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[MNT]: Remove the label API from Artist","articleBody":"### Summary\r\n\r\nArtist provides the label API intended to for legend labels:\r\n\r\n![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/123c31b6-8428-4aa3-874d-49ab759cc0ca)\r\n\r\nHowever, only a small subset of Artists are \"data\" Artists and can be reasonably used in a legend. From the subclasses of Artist:\r\n\r\n- *suitable for legend:* Line2D, Collection, Patch\r\n- *not suitable for legend:* AnnotationBbox, Text, Tick, Axis, FigureBase, Legend, _AxesBase, Table, OffsetBox, _ImageBase, QuiverKey\r\n\r\nIn some of these not-suitable classes *label* is repurposed for other use cases, e.g. axis labels, figure labels being displayed as window title. That's quite confusing.\r\n\r\n### Proposed fix\r\n\r\nCreate a Protocol or Mixin or DataArtist subclass for legend labels and use that in Line2D, Collection, Patch. Deprecate and remove `get/set_label` from all other Artists; possibly taking special measures where *label* is currently repurposed.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/timhoffm","@type":"Person","name":"timhoffm"},"datePublished":"2025-01-07T09:03:22.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":12},"url":"https://github.com/29422/matplotlib/issues/29422"}