.. 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_fig_axes_customize_simple.py: ========================= Fig Axes Customize Simple ========================= Customize the background, labels and ticks of a simple plot. .. code-block:: python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ``plt.figure`` creates a ```matplotlib.figure.Figure`` instance .. code-block:: python fig = plt.figure() rect = fig.patch # a rectangle instance rect.set_facecolor('lightgoldenrodyellow') ax1 = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4]) rect = ax1.patch rect.set_facecolor('lightslategray') for label in ax1.xaxis.get_ticklabels(): # label is a Text instance label.set_color('red') label.set_rotation(45) label.set_fontsize(16) for line in ax1.yaxis.get_ticklines(): # line is a Line2D instance line.set_color('green') line.set_markersize(25) line.set_markeredgewidth(3) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_fig_axes_customize_simple_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img ------------ References """""""""" The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: .. code-block:: python import matplotlib matplotlib.axis.Axis.get_ticklabels matplotlib.axis.Axis.get_ticklines matplotlib.text.Text.set_rotation matplotlib.text.Text.set_fontsize matplotlib.text.Text.set_color matplotlib.lines.Line2D matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_color matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_markersize matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_markeredgewidth matplotlib.patches.Patch.set_facecolor .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_fig_axes_customize_simple.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: fig_axes_customize_simple.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: fig_axes_customize_simple.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_