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extension: .md
format_name: markdown
format_version: '1.1'
jupytext_version: 1.1.6
jupytext_version: 1.2.1
kernelspec:
display_name: Python 3
language: python
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version: 3.7.3
plotly:
description: How to adjust axes properties in python. Includes examples of linear
and logarithmic axes, axes titles, styling and coloring axes and grid lines, and
more.
and logarithmic axes, axes titles, styling and coloring axes and grid lines,
and more.
display_as: file_settings
language: python
layout: base
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fig.show()
```

### Set axis title position

This example sets `standoff` attribute to cartesian axes to determine the distance between the tick labels and the axis title. Note that the axis title position is always constrained within the margins, so the actual standoff distance is always less than the set or default value. By default [automargin](https://plot.ly/python/setting-graph-size/#automatically-adjust-margins) is `True` in Plotly template for the cartesian axis, so the margins will be pushed to fit the axis title at given standoff distance.

```python
import plotly.graph_objects as go

fig = go.Figure(go.Scatter(
mode = "lines+markers",
y = [4, 1, 3],
x = ["December", "January", "February"]))

fig.update_layout(
xaxis = go.layout.XAxis(
tickangle = 90,
title_text = "Month",
title_font = {"size": 20},
title_standoff = 25),
yaxis = go.layout.YAxis(
title_text = "Temperature",
title_standoff = 25))

fig.show()
```

##### Set axis title font
Here is an example that configures the font family, size, and color for the axis titles in a figure created using Plotly Express.

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