Aligning rotated xticklabels with their respective xticks
axis-labels, matplotlib, python
Solution
You can set the horizontal alignment of ticklabels, see the example below. If you imagine a rectangular box around the rotated label, which side of the rectangle do you want to be aligned with the tickpoint?
Given your description, you want: ha='right'
n=5
x = np.arange(n)
y = np.sin(np.linspace(-3,3,n))
xlabels = ['Ticklabel %i' % i for i in range(n)]
fig, axs = plt.subplots(1,3, figsize=(12,3))
ha = ['right', 'center', 'left']
for n, ax in enumerate(axs):
ax.plot(x,y, 'o-')
ax.set_title(ha[n])
ax.set_xticks(x)
ax.set_xticklabels(xlabels, rotation=40, ha=ha[n])
Problem
Check the x axis of the figure below. How can I move the labels a bit to the left so that they align with their respective ticks? I'm rotating the labels using: ``` ax.set_xticks(xlabels_positions) ax.set_xticklabels(xlabels, rotation=45) ``` But, as you can see, the rotation is centered on the middle of the text labels. Which makes it look like they are shifted to the right. I've tried using this instead: ``` ax.set_xticklabels(xlabels, rotation=45, rotation_mode="anchor") ``` ... but it doesn't do what I wished for. And `"anchor"` seems to be the only value allowed for the `rotation_mode` parameter.