Adding and Editing a Legend in QGIS 3.10

-create print layout + add map
-insert legend
-change title + heading text
-adjust font size
-remove unwanted text
-resize legend window

[fannyoverlack]

If you untick the box "Auto update" in Item properties --> Legend items, you can easily control via the plus/minus-icons, which layers should be shown in your legend (without deleting layer names).

[joshuabrowne]

lmao @the John Legend picture. I was like "Why is there a random picture of john legend?"

[OxygenGenesis]

Thank you for actually putting the steps in the description it makes it much easier omfg.

[FullBody]

How do I make my legend shrink ? It’s super big and refuses to get smaller

[WhiteWolfTechGaming]

I'm new to usnig QGIS, I've used ArcMap before and in that program you're able to make the Legend into a Graphic and then ungroup the items inside. This is something I did a lot to really customize the legends on my maps. But I can't seem to figure out how to do that in QGIS, if you're even able to. There are layers in the map that I was shown, but not on the legend, i.e. State and County boundaries. I can't seem to be rid of the symbol of the State and County Boundaries on the Legend. If anyone might know a solution to this, I would be greatly obliged.

[Bojan]

At first, I thought that was a picture of you. I was going to send a screenshot to my friends and say, "this guy looks like John Legend"...I almost made a fool of myself.

[megan]

I want to add a legend, but I have over 40 shapefiles with different classification.
Is it possible to add a legend still?

[bill_y]

You skipped the most important step.... This creates a separate legend window but does not actually add it into the map. How do you add it to the map? I tried save and also export and nothing happens (i.e. there is still no legend just to original map).

[nanaamapinto]

Thanks for the tutorial, can you kindly help on how to give a single legend for multiple maps in qgis? Thank you