[ScatterPlot][Potly][Python] How to have marker of heart shape in scatter plot

Question

I was looking into the documents but I didn't find a marker with shape of heart. Is it possible to have markers in scatter plot(plotly) to have markers of the shape of heart as shown in below image?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

A simple way is to use unicode symbols https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_symbols.asp

To color, pass an array/list to textfont_color

import plotly.graph_objects as go
import numpy as np

go.Figure(
    go.Scatter(
        x=np.random.randint(1, 5, 10),
        y=np.random.randint(1, 5, 10),
        mode="text",
        text="♥",
        textfont_size=20,
        textfont_color=np.random.choice(["red","yellow","blue"], 10)
    )
)

with borders

import plotly.graph_objects as go
import numpy as np

x = np.random.randint(1, 5, 10)
y = np.random.randint(1, 5, 10)

fig = go.Figure(
    [
        go.Scatter(
            x=x,
            y=y,
            mode="text",
            text="♥",
            textfont_size=80,
            textfont_color="white",
            textposition="middle center",
        ),
        go.Scatter(
            x=x,
            y=y,
            mode="text",
            text="♥",
            textfont_size=40,
            textfont_color=np.random.choice(["red", "yellow", "blue"], 10),
            textposition="middle center",
        ),
    ]
)