Graph title in different colors to replace legend

[Pablo Cabrera]

Hi,

I am trying to use the graph title to replace the legend. In this example, I would like the word "foreign" to look red and "local" blue. The rest of the words should remain black. I know that you can change the font or add bold or italics, but I could not find this in the documentation. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

sysuse auto, clear
twoway ///
(scatter price mpg if foreign == 1, mcolor("red")) ///
(scatter price mpg if foreign == 0, mcolor("blue")), ///
legend(off) ///
title("Price and mpg for foreign and local cars")

[Chris Larkin]

I don't know of any way to do this with title options, but you could hack it thusly:

sysuse auto, clear
twoway ///
(scatter price mpg if foreign == 1, mcolor("red")) ///
(scatter price mpg if foreign == 0, mcolor("blue")), ///
legend(off) ti(" ") ///
text(17000 20 "Price and mpg for", col(black)) ///
text(17000 25.3 "foreign", col(red)) ///
text(17000 27.7 "and", col(black)) ///
text(17000 30.5 "domestic", col(blue)) ///
text(17000 33.5 "cars", col(black))

Not very versatile though...

[Nick Cox]

You can assign a colour to an entire title, but I don't know a way of colouring different words differently. You can create your own minimalist legend more or less like this:

sysuse auto, clear
set scheme s1color 
twoway ///
(scatter price mpg if foreign == 1, mcolor("red")  ms(Oh)) ///
(scatter price mpg if foreign == 0, mcolor("blue") ms(+)), ///
legend(off) title("Price and mpg") /// 
text(15000 35 "foreign", size(medium) color(red)) /// 
text(14000 35 "local", size(medium) color(blue))

where I have varied the markers as otherwise there are severe problems of overlap and indeed occlusion.