How to put the legend out of the plot

Question

I have a series of 20 plots (not subplots) to be made in a single figure. I want the legend to be outside of the box. At the same time, I do not want to change the axes, a

Answer 1

You can also try figlegend. It is possible to create a legend independent of any Axes object. However, you may need to create some "dummy" Paths to make sure the formatting for the objects gets passed on correctly.