.. note::
    :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

    Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py>` to download the full example code
.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py:


=============
Align Ylabels
=============





.. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_align_ylabels_001.png
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: python

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    box = dict(facecolor='yellow', pad=5, alpha=0.2)

    fig, ((ax1, ax2), (ax3, ax4)) = plt.subplots(2, 2)
    fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2, wspace=0.6)

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    ax1.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
    ax1.set_title('ylabels not aligned')
    ax1.set_ylabel('misaligned 1', bbox=box)
    ax1.set_ylim(0, 2000)

    ax3.set_ylabel('misaligned 2',bbox=box)
    ax3.plot(np.random.rand(10))

    labelx = -0.3  # axes coords

    ax2.set_title('ylabels aligned')
    ax2.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))
    ax2.set_ylabel('aligned 1', bbox=box)
    ax2.yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5)
    ax2.set_ylim(0, 2000)

    ax4.plot(np.random.rand(10))
    ax4.set_ylabel('aligned 2', bbox=box)
    ax4.yaxis.set_label_coords(labelx, 0.5)

    plt.show()


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_align_ylabels.py:


.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer
    :class: sphx-glr-footer-example



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Python source code: align_ylabels.py <align_ylabels.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: align_ylabels.ipynb <align_ylabels.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot
    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery
    <https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io>`_
