How can I change the font size of ticks of axes object in matplotlib

Question

I have a figure I added subfigure to (inset). I have used:

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
subA = fig.add_axes([0.4,0.14,0.2,0.2])

I now want to change the xtick font size of the subfigure. I tried some naive approach such as

subA.get_xaxis().get_xticks().set_fontsize(10)

without any luck.

How can I do this then?

score 49 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '15 at 00:14

49

Use:

subA.tick_params(labelsize=6)

answered Sep 03 '15 at 00:14

gpano

6

This is a better solution if you don't want to have to respecify the tick labels – Bill Cheatham Jan 28 '16 at 18:14

score 24 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '12 at 14:29

24

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
plt.xticks([0.4,0.14,0.2,0.2], fontsize = 50) # work on current fig
plt.show()

the x/yticks has the same properties as matplotlib.text

answered Oct 30 '12 at 14:29

lucasg

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