Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to change axis fontsize

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

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:

    Darren> The desired size of the tickmarks depends on whether I am
    Darren> creating a plot for publication, or for a talk. I find
    Darren> that I tweak this quite a bit in Matlab, looking for the
    Darren> most appealing result (I started in graphic design, 10
    Darren> years ago).

The easiest way to set the size of the tick labels is

  labels = get(gca(), 'xtickabels')
  set(labels, 'fontsize', 12)

I also end up doing the same thing, tweaking line size, font size and
weight, etc, to make figures that show up nicely in small journal
formats.

JDH