How do I adjust (offset) colorbar title in matplotlib

matplotlib alignment colorbar
mankoff picture mankoff · Jul 4, 2013 · Viewed 34.2k times · Source

Given the following code:

imshow(np.arange(16*16).reshape(16,16))
cb = colorbar()
cb.set_label("Foo")
cb.set_ticks([0,255])

Which produces:

enter image description here

How do I adjust the colorbar text "Foo" so that it is offset to the left, betwen the 0 and 255, closer to the colorbar, reducing the un-needed whitespace?

Answer

bsf10 picture bsf10 · Nov 22, 2013 
cb.set_label("Foo", labelpad=-1)

Negative labelpad values will move closer to the bar, positive away.

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