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        "\n# Customizing figure and axes appearance\n\nCustomize the background, labels and ticks of a simple plot.\n\n.. redirect-from:: /gallery/pyplots/fig_axes_customize_simple\n"
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        "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n\nfig = plt.figure()\nfig.patch.set_facecolor('lightgoldenrodyellow')\n\nax1 = fig.add_axes((0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4))\nax1.patch.set_facecolor('lightslategray')\n\nax1.tick_params(axis='x', labelcolor='tab:red', labelrotation=45, labelsize=16)\nax1.tick_params(axis='y', color='tab:green', size=25, width=3)\n\nplt.show()"
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        ".. admonition:: References\n\n   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown\n   in this example:\n\n   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.tick_params`\n   - `matplotlib.patches.Patch.set_facecolor`\n\n"
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