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[Matplotlib-users] Tick label sizes

[Tommy G. <tg...@ma...>]

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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tick label sizes

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tommy Grav <tg...@ma...> 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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tick label sizes

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 08/04/2010 06:19 AM, John Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tommy Grav<tg...@ma...>  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

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