Python Matplotlib figure title overlaps axes label when using twiny

Question

I am trying to plot two separate quantities on the same graph using twiny as follows   fig   figure   ax   fig add subplot 111  ax plot T  r   b-   T  R   r-   T  r geo   g-   ax set yscale  log   ax annotate  Approx  sea level   xy  Planet T day 1 3  Planet R  1000   xytext  Planet T day 1 3  Planet R 1000   ax annotate  Geostat  orbit   xy  Planet T day 1 3  r geo 0    xytext  Planet T day 1 3  r geo 0    ax set xlabel  Rotational period  hrs    ax set ylabel  Orbital radius  km   logarithmic   ax set title  Orbital charts for     Planet N  horizontalalignment  center   verticalalignment  top     ax2   ax twiny   ax2 plot v r  k-   ax2 set xlabel  Linear speed  ms-1     show     and the data is presented fine  but I am having the problem that the figure title is overlapping with the axes labels on the secondary x axis so that it s barely legible  I wanted to post a picture example here  but I don t have a high enough rep yet    I d like to know if there s a straightforward way to just shift the title directly up a few tens of pixels  so that the chart looks prettier

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I m not sure whether it is a new feature in later versions of matplotlib  but at least for 1 3 1  this is simply   plt title figure title  y 1 08    This also works for plt suptitle    but not  yet  for plt xlabel    etc

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Just use plt tight layout   before plt show    It works well

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ax set title  My Title n   fontsize  15   color  red   plt imshow myfile  origin  upper     If you put   n  right after your title string  the plot is drawn just below the title  That might be a fast solution too

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Forget using plt title and place the text directly with plt text  An over-exaggerated example is given below   import pylab as plt  fig   plt figure figsize  5 10    figure title    Normal title  ax1    plt subplot 1 2 1   plt title figure title  fontsize   20  plt plot  1 2 3   1 4 9    figure title    Raised title  ax2    plt subplot 1 2 2   plt text 0 5  1 08  figure title           horizontalalignment  center            fontsize 20           transform   ax2 transAxes  plt plot  1 2 3   1 4 9    plt show

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A temporary solution if you don t want to get into the x  y position of your title  Following worked for me  plt title  Capital Expenditure n     Add a next line after your title  kudos

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You can use pad for this case   ax set title  whatever   pad 20

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I was having an issue with the x-label overlapping a subplot title  this worked for me   import matplotlib pyplot as plt fig  ax   plt subplots 2  1  ax 0  scatter      ax 1  scatter      plt tight layout         plt show     before    after    reference    https   matplotlib org users tight layout guide html

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