Answer by Martijn Courteaux for Aligning rotated xticklabels with their...
@tdy's answer is close to perfect. I think a quicker way to get the labels to look nice is to use a combination of all three of the following settings:ha='right'va='top'rotation_mode='anchor'This way,...
View ArticleAnswer by Donshel for Aligning rotated xticklabels with their respective xticks
I am clearly late but there is an official example which usesplt.setp(ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=45, ha="right", rotation_mode="anchor")to rotate the labels while keeping them correctly aligned...
View ArticleAnswer by tdy for Aligning rotated xticklabels with their respective xticks
ha='right' is not enough to visually align labels with ticks:For rotation=45, use bothha='right' and rotation_mode='anchor'For other angles, use a ScaledTranslation() insteadrotation_mode='anchor'If...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeffrey Benjamin Brown for Aligning rotated xticklabels with their...
An easy, loop-free alternative is to use the horizontalalignment Text property as a keyword argument to xticks[1]. In the below, at the commented line, I've forced the xticks alignment to be...
View ArticleAnswer by Boris Gorelik for Aligning rotated xticklabels with their...
Rotating the labels is certainly possible. Note though that doing so reduces the readability of the text. One alternative is to alternate label positions using a code like this:import numpy as npn=5x =...
View ArticleAnswer by Rutger Kassies for Aligning rotated xticklabels with their...
You can set the horizontal alignment of ticklabels, see the example below. If you imagine a rectangular box around the rotated label, which side of the rectangle do you want to be aligned with the...
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Check the x axis of the figure below. How can I move the labels a bit to the left so that they align with their respective ticks?I'm rotating the labels...
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