.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py: ============= Align Ylabels ============= .. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_align_ylabels_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: python import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt box = dict(facecolor='yellow', pad=5, alpha=0.2) fig, ((ax1, ax2), (ax3, ax4)) = plt.subplots(2, 2) fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2, wspace=0.6) # Fixing random state for reproducibility np.random.seed(19680801) 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.set_ylabel('misaligned 2',bbox=box) ax3.plot(np.random.rand(10)) labelx = -0.3 # axes coords 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.plot(np.random.rand(10)) ax4.set_ylabel('aligned 2', bbox=box) ax4.yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: align_ylabels.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: align_ylabels.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_