### Navigation

- index
- modules |
- home|
- examples|
- tutorials|
- pyplot|
- docs »

# Align Ylabels

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    box = dict(facecolor='yellow', pad=5, alpha=0.2)

    fig = plt.figure()
    fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2, wspace=0.6)

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(221)
    ax1.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
    ax1.set_title('ylabels not aligned')
    ax1.set_ylabel('misaligned 1', bbox=box)
    ax1.set_ylim(0, 2000)
    ax3 = fig.add_subplot(223)
    ax3.set_ylabel('misaligned 2',bbox=box)
    ax3.plot(np.random.rand(10))

    labelx = -0.3  # axes coords

    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(222)
    ax2.set_title('ylabels aligned')
    ax2.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
    ax2.set_ylabel('aligned 1', bbox=box)
    ax2.yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5)
    ax2.set_ylim(0, 2000)

    ax4 = fig.add_subplot(224)
    ax4.plot(np.random.rand(10))
    ax4.set_ylabel('aligned 2', bbox=box)
    ax4.yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5)

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.093 seconds)

Generated by Sphinx-Gallery