# Horizontal y label with Plots.jl

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**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, plotting\
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/horizontal-y-label-with-plots-jl/9967 "2018-03-25T15:29:11Z")\
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You can use `yguidefontrotation`. For example,

```julia
using Plots
pyplot()
plot(plot(1:10, ylab="y"), plot(1:10, ylab="y", yguidefontrotation=-90))

```

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