Controling the vertical distance between labels

Question

Here we have a simple example

Clear["Global`*"];

col = {Green, Blue, Red, Purple};
lab = {"Label 1", "Label 2", "Lable 3", "Label 4"};
leg = PointLegend[col, lab, LegendMarkers -> {Style[●, 12]}, LabelStyle -> {FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 17}]

Is there a way to reduce the vertical distance between the labels?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '20 at 11:08

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You can use the (undocumented) option Spacings:

Row[PointLegend[col, lab, 
    LegendMarkers -> {Style[\[FilledCircle], 12]}, 
    LabelStyle -> {FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 17}, 
    Spacings -> #] & /@ {.1, .5, 1}]

answered May 04 '20 at 11:08

kglr

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It's working, even though the option Spacings is colored red thus meaning unkown option. – Vaggelis_Z May 04 '20 at 11:13
It would be nice to see the ability to align labels with their markers. it would be more obvious if these were squares. I had to roll my own legend to fix it. Maybe not an appropriate place for this comment, but, nice work as always, kglr! – CA Trevillian May 05 '20 at 02:54
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@CATrevillian, Vertical (mis-)aligning of plotmarkers and legend text may be relevant/useful. – kglr May 05 '20 at 03:28

Controling the vertical distance between labels

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