Re: [Matplotlib-users] tickmark font and placement question

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Malte" == Malte Marquarding <Mal...@cs...> writes:


    Malte> Laziness ;-) Thanks, I just needed to know if there is
    Malte> something I might have overlooked.  I just couldn't think
    Malte> of a case where you would want to change the tick label
    Malte> size on an individual basis, so I thought there would be a
    Malte> method in "axes.xaxis/axes.yaxis" to do this to the whole
    Malte> list.

    Malte> Is this something which could be added to the Formatter
    Malte> classes, or maybe a Styler Class to change Font properties
    Malte> and colors.

You can change the default tick label size by setting an rc
configuration parameter -- http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlibrc.  See
the properties

  xtick.major.size     : 4      # major tick size in points
  xtick.minor.size     : 2      # minor tick size in points
  xtick.major.pad      : 4      # distance to major tick label in points
  xtick.minor.pad      : 4      # distance to the minor tick label in points
  xtick.color          : k      # color of the tick labels
  xtick.labelsize      : 12     # fontsize of the tick labels
  xtick.direction      : in     # direction: in or out

and ditto for yaxis.  Also, if you like to save typing, you can use
the setp functionality to set multiple properties for multiple objects
w/o changing the defaults

  setp(ax.get_xticklabels(), fontsize=12, color='red')


JDH