# How to display "Angstrom" symbol as an axis label in Makie?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [October 17, 2022, 6:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827 "2022-10-17T06:34:49Z")
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### Author:  [@PuDu-Astro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PuDu-Astro)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 6:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827/1 "2022-10-17T06:34:49Z")
Angstrom is commonly used as an unit in astronomy. In LaTeX, we can easily input it using “\AA”. I tried to display it in Makie as an axis label, but failed. L"\AA" doesn’t work.
For example:
using CairoMakie, LaTeXStrings
fig = Figure(font = “CMU Serif”)
x = range(1, stop = 10, length = 1000)
y = sin.(x)
ax = Axis(fig[1, 1], ylabel = L"y (\AA)“, xlabel = L"x”)
lines!(ax, x, y)
save(“temp.pdf”, fig)
fig
Is there any method to make it displayed properly? Thanks very much.
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### Author:  [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827/2 "2022-10-17T07:29:46Z")
Just type `\AA` to get a unicode `Å` and use that?
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### Author:  [@Krastanov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Krastanov)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827/3 "2022-10-17T07:39:33Z")
Just to clarify, most Julia tools support input for unicode characters. E.g. if you use julia in the terminal or in VS code, Jupyter, Pluto, you can input latex-like unicode characters by slash-followed-by-tab autocompletion. I would also suggest installing the wonderful Julia Mono typeface, a font that makes your unicode-rich code so much more beautiful [https://juliamono.netlify.app/](https://juliamono.netlify.app/)
Of course, going straight to LaTeXStrings is a reasonable approach too.
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827/4 "2022-10-17T07:49:19Z")
You can also open an issue to add the command to MathTeXEngine.jl if you think that it should be supported.
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### Author:  [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827/5 "2022-10-17T09:55:50Z")
Your code works fine for me:
↑ PDF, although the PNG shows a bit of pixellation:
MathTeXEngine v0.5.0 is happy to display `Å` via LaTeXStrings:
I believe it uses the NewComputerModern font automatically.
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### Author:  [@PuDu-Astro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PuDu-Astro)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-display-angstrom-symbol-as-an-axis-label-in-makie/88827/6 "2022-10-17T12:18:30Z")
Thank you very much. I update my MathTeXEngine to version 0.5.3, then it works fine! 😁