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Changing the tick size in Matplotlib
schedule Mar 5, 2023
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To change the tick size in Matplotlib, use the tick_params(~)
method:
plt.tick_params(axis="both", labelsize=15)plt.plot([1,2,3])plt.show()
The output is as follows:

To change only the tick size of only either the x-axis or the y-axis:
plt.tick_params(axis="x", labelsize=15) # To change the x-axisplt.tick_params(axis="y", labelsize=15) # To change the y-axis
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