.. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_text_rotation.py: =================================== Default text rotation demonstration =================================== The way Matplotlib does text layout by default is counter-intuitive to some, so this example is designed to make it a little clearer. The text is aligned by its bounding box (the rectangular box that surrounds the ink rectangle). The order of operations is rotation then alignment. Basically, the text is centered at your x,y location, rotated around this point, and then aligned according to the bounding box of the rotated text. So if you specify left, bottom alignment, the bottom left of the bounding box of the rotated text will be at the x,y coordinate of the text. But a picture is worth a thousand words! .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_text_rotation_001.png :align: center .. code-block:: python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def addtext(ax, props): ax.text(0.5, 0.5, 'text 0', props, rotation=0) ax.text(1.5, 0.5, 'text 45', props, rotation=45) ax.text(2.5, 0.5, 'text 135', props, rotation=135) ax.text(3.5, 0.5, 'text 225', props, rotation=225) ax.text(4.5, 0.5, 'text -45', props, rotation=-45) for x in range(0, 5): ax.scatter(x + 0.5, 0.5, color='r', alpha=0.5) ax.set_yticks([0, .5, 1]) ax.set_xlim(0, 5) ax.grid(True) # the text bounding box bbox = {'fc': '0.8', 'pad': 0} fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 1) addtext(axs[0], {'ha': 'center', 'va': 'center', 'bbox': bbox}) axs[0].set_xticks(np.arange(0, 5.1, 0.5), []) axs[0].set_ylabel('center / center') addtext(axs[1], {'ha': 'left', 'va': 'bottom', 'bbox': bbox}) axs[1].set_xticks(np.arange(0, 5.1, 0.5)) axs[1].set_ylabel('left / bottom') plt.show() **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes 0.054 seconds) .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: text_rotation.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_rotation.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_