Is it possible to use styled (e.g., colored) text in PlotLabel?

Question

Sometimes, I want to provide a key or legend for my Plot or ListPlot without using the PlotLegends package. Sometimes, I just want to use the option PlotLabel inside my Plot or ListPlot:

Plot[{x^2, x^3}, {x,0,10}, PlotStyle->{Red, Blue}, 
    PlotLabel->"Red curve: x^2\nBlue curve: x^3"]

Is there any way to actually make the string "Red curve: x^2" red and the string "Blue curve: x^3" blue, within PlotLabel?

Answer 1

Yeah, use Style and Column to format the PlotLabel:

PlotLabel -> Column[{Style["Red curve: x^2", Red], Style["Blue curve: x^3", Blue]}]]

Example: