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Resizing axes with tight layout¶
tight_layout
attempts to resize subplots in
a figure so that there are no overlaps between axes objects and labels
on the axes.
See Tight Layout guide for more details and Constrained Layout Guide for an alternative.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import itertools
import warnings
fontsizes = itertools.cycle([8, 16, 24, 32])
def example_plot(ax):
ax.plot([1, 2])
ax.set_xlabel('x-label', fontsize=next(fontsizes))
ax.set_ylabel('y-label', fontsize=next(fontsizes))
ax.set_title('Title', fontsize=next(fontsizes))
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
example_plot(ax)
plt.tight_layout()
![Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_001.png)
fig, ((ax1, ax2), (ax3, ax4)) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=2)
example_plot(ax1)
example_plot(ax2)
example_plot(ax3)
example_plot(ax4)
plt.tight_layout()
![Title, Title, Title, Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_002.png)
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, ncols=1)
example_plot(ax1)
example_plot(ax2)
plt.tight_layout()
![Title, Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_003.png)
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2)
example_plot(ax1)
example_plot(ax2)
plt.tight_layout()
![Title, Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_004.png)
fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=3)
for ax in axs.flat:
example_plot(ax)
plt.tight_layout()
![Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title, Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_005.png)
fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = plt.subplot(221)
ax2 = plt.subplot(223)
ax3 = plt.subplot(122)
example_plot(ax1)
example_plot(ax2)
example_plot(ax3)
plt.tight_layout()
![Title, Title, Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_006.png)
fig = plt.figure()
ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (0, 0))
ax2 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (0, 1), colspan=2)
ax3 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (1, 0), colspan=2, rowspan=2)
ax4 = plt.subplot2grid((3, 3), (1, 2), rowspan=2)
example_plot(ax1)
example_plot(ax2)
example_plot(ax3)
example_plot(ax4)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
![Title, Title, Title, Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_007.png)
fig = plt.figure()
gs1 = fig.add_gridspec(3, 1)
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[0])
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[1])
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(gs1[2])
example_plot(ax1)
example_plot(ax2)
example_plot(ax3)
gs1.tight_layout(fig, rect=[None, None, 0.45, None])
gs2 = fig.add_gridspec(2, 1)
ax4 = fig.add_subplot(gs2[0])
ax5 = fig.add_subplot(gs2[1])
example_plot(ax4)
example_plot(ax5)
with warnings.catch_warnings():
# gs2.tight_layout cannot handle the subplots from the first gridspec
# (gs1), so it will raise a warning. We are going to match the gridspecs
# manually so we can filter the warning away.
warnings.simplefilter("ignore", UserWarning)
gs2.tight_layout(fig, rect=[0.45, None, None, None])
# now match the top and bottom of two gridspecs.
top = min(gs1.top, gs2.top)
bottom = max(gs1.bottom, gs2.bottom)
gs1.update(top=top, bottom=bottom)
gs2.update(top=top, bottom=bottom)
plt.show()
![Title, Title, Title, Title, Title](../../_images/sphx_glr_demo_tight_layout_008.png)
References¶
The use of the following functions and methods is shown in this example:
Out:
<function subplot2grid at 0x7f08bbb66280>
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 4.111 seconds)
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