matplotlib set yaxis label size

Question

How can I change the size of only the yaxis label  Right now  I change the size of all labels using  pylab rc  font   family  serif   size 40    but in my case  I would like to make the y-axis label larger than the x-axis  However  I d like to leave the tick labels alone   I ve tried  for example   pylab gca   get ylabel   set fontsize 60    but I only get   AttributeError   str  object has no attribute  set fontsize    So  obviously that doesn t work  I ve seen lots of stuff for tick sizes  but nothing for the axis labels themselves

User · Accepted Answer

If you are using the  pylab  for interactive plotting you can set the labelsize at creation time with pylab ylabel  Example   fontsize 40    If you use pyplot programmatically you can either set the fontsize on creation with ax set ylabel  Example   fontsize 40  or afterwards with ax yaxis label set size 40

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