hello, the following example gives a plot with a legend: plot(-10:10,-10:10,type="n") x=1:10 y=1:10 tt=c("A","B","C","D","E","F") text(x,y,tt,cex=.8) legend(-10,10,paste(tt," ",x,y),text.col=c(2:4)) # each row in different colour but how can I colour the legend text by "column" meaning tt in red, x in blue and y in green? thanks for your help. marcus