.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/align_labels_demo.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_subplots_axes_and_figures_align_labels_demo.py: =============== Aligning Labels =============== Aligning xlabel and ylabel using `.Figure.align_xlabels` and `.Figure.align_ylabels` `.Figure.align_labels` wraps these two functions. Note that the xlabel "XLabel1 1" would normally be much closer to the x-axis, and "YLabel1 0" would be much closer to the y-axis of their respective axes. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 15-38 .. image-sg:: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_align_labels_demo_001.png :alt: align labels demo :srcset: /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_align_labels_demo_001.png, /gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/images/sphx_glr_align_labels_demo_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec fig = plt.figure(tight_layout=True) gs = gridspec.GridSpec(2, 2) ax = fig.add_subplot(gs[0, :]) ax.plot(np.arange(0, 1e6, 1000)) ax.set_ylabel('YLabel0') ax.set_xlabel('XLabel0') for i in range(2): ax = fig.add_subplot(gs[1, i]) ax.plot(np.arange(1., 0., -0.1) * 2000., np.arange(1., 0., -0.1)) ax.set_ylabel('YLabel1 %d' % i) ax.set_xlabel('XLabel1 %d' % i) if i == 0: ax.tick_params(axis='x', rotation=55) fig.align_labels() # same as fig.align_xlabels(); fig.align_ylabels() plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_subplots_axes_and_figures_align_labels_demo.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: align_labels_demo.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: align_labels_demo.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_