Bug summary

Sometimes, the axis tick labels overlaps. In such cases, manually adjusting their positions slightly is one solution. However, I found that this doesn't seem to work.

Here is a simple example. I simulated a situation where the text would overlap by setting a smaller figure size.

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltfig=plt.figure(figsize=(0.2,0.2))ax=fig.subplots(1,1)ax.plot(range(10),range(10))plt.show()

As it can be seen, the y-axis labels '0' and '5' have some overlap.

Then, I obtained the y-axis tick label objects usingget_yticklabels and tried to raise the position of '5' usingset_position. As shown below, nothing changed.

Code for reproduction

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltfig=plt.figure(figsize=(0.2,0.2))ax=fig.subplots(1,1)ax.plot(range(10),range(10))texts=ax.get_yticklabels()fortextintexts:iftext.get_text()=="5":text.set_position((0,6))plt.show()

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

The position of '5' on the y-axis should be adjusted upwards.

Additional information

No response

Operating system

Debian

Matplotlib Version

3.10.1

Matplotlib Backend

module://matplotlib_inline.backend_inline

Python version

3.13.2

Jupyter version

4.4.0

Installation

pip