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# Fig Axes Customize Simple

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    # plt.figure creates a matplotlib.figure.Figure instance
    fig = plt.figure()
    rect = fig.patch # a rectangle instance
    rect.set_facecolor('lightgoldenrodyellow')

    ax1 = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4])
    rect = ax1.patch
    rect.set_facecolor('lightslategray')

    for label in ax1.xaxis.get_ticklabels():
        # label is a Text instance
        label.set_color('red')
        label.set_rotation(45)
        label.set_fontsize(16)

    for line in ax1.yaxis.get_ticklines():
        # line is a Line2D instance
        line.set_color('green')
        line.set_markersize(25)
        line.set_markeredgewidth(3)

    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.028 seconds)

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