Matplotlib make tick labels font size smaller

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In a matplotlib figure, how can I make the font size for the tick labels using ax1.set_xticklabels() smaller?

Further, how can one rotate it from horizontal to vertical?

Answer

Autiwa picture Autiwa · Jul 8, 2012

There is a simpler way actually. I just found: 

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# We prepare the plot  
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

# We change the fontsize of minor ticks label 
ax.tick_params(axis='both', which='major', labelsize=10)
ax.tick_params(axis='both', which='minor', labelsize=8)

This only answers to the size of label part of your question though.

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