.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/ticks/ticklabels_rotation.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_ticks_ticklabels_rotation.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_ticks_ticklabels_rotation.py:


===========================
Rotating custom tick labels
===========================

Demo of custom tick-labels with user-defined rotation.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 8-22



.. image-sg:: /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_ticklabels_rotation_001.png
   :alt: ticklabels rotation
   :srcset: /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_ticklabels_rotation_001.png, /gallery/ticks/images/sphx_glr_ticklabels_rotation_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    x = [1, 2, 3, 4]
    y = [1, 4, 9, 6]
    labels = ['Frogs', 'Hogs', 'Bogs', 'Slogs']

    plt.plot(x, y)
    # You can specify a rotation for the tick labels in degrees or with keywords.
    plt.xticks(x, labels, rotation='vertical')
    # Pad margins so that markers don't get clipped by the axes
    plt.margins(0.2)
    # Tweak spacing to prevent clipping of tick-labels
    plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15)
    plt.show()


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_ticks_ticklabels_rotation.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: ticklabels_rotation.ipynb <ticklabels_rotation.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: ticklabels_rotation.py <ticklabels_rotation.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_