Bug summary

When using the fill_between function in matplotlib with a legend and specifying the legend location as "best", the legend is not taking into account the shaded area and may overlap with it.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# Example data
x = np.linspace(0, 5, 100)
y1 = 0.5 * np.exp(x) - 1
y2 = 2 * np.exp(x) + 1

# Plotting shaded area
plt.fill_between(x, y1, y2, color='gray', alpha=0.5, label='Shaded Area')

# Set y-axis limit
plt.ylim(-10, 100)

# Adding legend with location "best"
plt.legend(loc='best')

# Show the plot
plt.show()

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

Additional information

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Operating system

Windows 11

Matplotlib Version

3.8.0

Matplotlib Backend

module://backend_interagg

Python version

Python 3.11.5

Jupyter version

No response

Installation

conda