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I trying to use plt.text to plot letters that are variously stretched or squeezed in the horizontal direction. I thought the 'stretch' option would do that, but it doesn't change anything:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.text(1,1, 'A', stretch=100) plt.show()

It doesn't seem to matter what value I use for stretch, the result always looks the same.

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I tried specifying the stretch using mpl.rcParams['font.stretch'] = 1000 but as per the official docs, it seems font.stretch is not yet implemented (emphasis mine):

The font.stretch property has 11 values: ultra-condensed, extra-condensed, condensed, semi-condensed, normal, semi-expanded, expanded, extra-expanded, ultra-expanded, wider, and narrower. This property is not currently implemented.

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I tried such code plt.rcParams['font.stretch'] = 1000; plt.text(0.5, 0.5, 'ABC') but it seems font is not stretched (doesn't change width), even if I change 1000->50. Maybe we need somehow to load some stretchable font before? Do you know what free fonts are stretchable?

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