# Axis Tick Labels in Makie.jl

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/axis-tick-labels-in-makie-jl/16118
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/axis-tick-labels-in-makie-jl/16118 "2018-10-10T14:11:30Z")
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### Author: ![sdmcallister](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdmcallister/32/2324_2.png) [@sdmcallister](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdmcallister)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/axis-tick-labels-in-makie-jl/16118/1 "2018-10-10T14:11:30Z")

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Is it possible in Makie to have x-axis or y-axis tick labels that are non-numeric? I couldn’t see a way to do this in the documentation. For example, if I plot a bar chart, can the x-axis be a label like “Group 1” or “January”?

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### Author: ![sdanisch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdanisch/32/1406_2.png) [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/axis-tick-labels-in-makie-jl/16118/2 "2018-10-10T14:42:03Z")

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It’s a biiit awkward, but works in principle - just needs some polish:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/c/3/c30876a6850f0ea6c1083eb644bf99fd74ad9ac9.png)

```julia
barplot(1:3, rand(3), 
    limits = FRect3D(Vec3f0(0, 0, 0), Vec3f0(4, 1, 0)), # limits don't get automatically taken from ranges
    axis = NT(ticks = NT(
        labels = (["😸", "♡", "𝕴"], ["β ÷ δ", "22", "≙"]),
        ranges = (1:3, range(0, stop=1, length = 3)) # ranges don't get adapted to number of labels, so one needs to supply them
    )
))

```