Increasing font size in axis ticks

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Hello,

I know how one can increase the font size in the xlabel and ylabel fields. I use the methode presented in:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/dannys_example.html

But I don't know how to increase the font size for the numbers labelling the xticks or the yticks, and found nothing in the doc. May you help ?

David

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Hi David,

You can call tick_params; e.g.,

plt.tick_params(labelsize=20)

If you want to change just one axis

ax.xaxis.set_tick_params(labelsize=20)

This assumes your axes object (from plt.subplots, fig.add_subplot, plt.gca(), etc.) is named ax .

Best,

-Tony

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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, David Kremer <david.kremer.dk@…287…> wrote:

Hello,

I know how one can increase the font size in the xlabel and ylabel

fields. I use the methode presented in:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/dannys_example.html

But I don’t know how to increase the font size for the numbers labelling

the xticks or the yticks, and found nothing in the doc. May you help ?

David