Aliased versus anti-aliased

This example demonstrates 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"] = False
plt.text(0.5, 0.5, "Aliased", ha="center", va="center")

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

plt.show()