.. _sphx_glr_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py:


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Align Ylabels
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.. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_align_ylabels_001.png
    :align: center





.. code-block:: python

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    box = dict(facecolor='yellow', pad=5, alpha=0.2)

    fig = plt.figure()
    fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2, wspace=0.6)

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(221)
    ax1.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
    ax1.set_title('ylabels not aligned')
    ax1.set_ylabel('misaligned 1', bbox=box)
    ax1.set_ylim(0, 2000)
    ax3 = fig.add_subplot(223)
    ax3.set_ylabel('misaligned 2',bbox=box)
    ax3.plot(np.random.rand(10))


    labelx = -0.3  # axes coords

    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(222)
    ax2.set_title('ylabels aligned')
    ax2.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
    ax2.set_ylabel('aligned 1', bbox=box)
    ax2.yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5)
    ax2.set_ylim(0, 2000)

    ax4 = fig.add_subplot(224)
    ax4.plot(np.random.rand(10))
    ax4.set_ylabel('aligned 2', bbox=box)
    ax4.yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5)


    plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.068 seconds)



.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer


  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Python source code: align_ylabels.py <align_ylabels.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: align_ylabels.ipynb <align_ylabels.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

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