Tick label sizes

Community matplotlib-users
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A rather simple question, but I could not find the
answer while rummaging around on the matplotlib
webpages. Is there a way to increase the size of
the tick label sizes from say fontsize 9 to 12?

Tommy

2

for label in ax.get_xticklabels() + ax.get_yticklabels():
    labe.set_fontsize(12)

You may want to take a look at the artist tutorial, which gives an
overview of all the objects in the matplotlib figure, how to get at
them and modify them, etc.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/artists.html

JDH

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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tommy Grav <tgrav@...935...> wrote:

A rather simple question, but I could not find the
answer while rummaging around on the matplotlib
webpages. Is there a way to increase the size of
the tick label sizes from say fontsize 9 to 12?

3

Also, if you are running mpl 1.0, you can use the tick_params Axes method or pyplot function. E.g.,

ax.tick_params(labelsize=12)

Eric

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On 08/04/2010 06:19 AM, John Hunter wrote:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tommy Grav<tgrav@...935...> wrote:

A rather simple question, but I could not find the
answer while rummaging around on the matplotlib
webpages. Is there a way to increase the size of
the tick label sizes from say fontsize 9 to 12?

for label in ax.get_xticklabels() + ax.get_yticklabels():
     labe.set_fontsize(12)

You may want to take a look at the artist tutorial, which gives an
overview of all the objects in the matplotlib figure, how to get at
them and modify them, etc.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/artists.html

JDH