# Julia plots: Labels in scientific notation as in default font
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-labels-in-scientific-notation-as-in-default-font/113231
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** plotting, gr
**Created:** [April 19, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-labels-in-scientific-notation-as-in-default-font/113231 "2024-04-19T11:00:23Z")
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### Author:  [@james](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/james)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-labels-in-scientific-notation-as-in-default-font/113231/1 "2024-04-19T11:00:23Z")
I have a log log plot and want to change the x-axis labels manually as in the code below. Hence, I need to use powers of 10 – however, the only ways I come up with gives different fonts than the default:
Note that both labels on the x axis have a different font than on the y-axis. The 10^0 is a bit more subtle, but the powers is different and this becomes more noticeable for other powers.
Many thanks in advance!
Here is the code:
```julia
using Plots
using LaTeXStrings
gr()
# get some random data
myplot = plot(1:40, 1:40, xaxis=:log10, yaxis=:log10,
xticks = ([1,2,10],["10⁰",L"$2\times 10^0$","10"]))
plot!(myplot, size=(800,400))
```
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### Author:  [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2024, 11:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-labels-in-scientific-notation-as-in-default-font/113231/2 "2024-04-19T11:22:56Z")
What I do is usually the opposite:
> **[Figures and LaTeX · JuliaNotes.jl](https://m3g.github.io/JuliaNotes.jl/stable/figures/)**
>
> Documentation for JuliaNotes.jl.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-plots-labels-in-scientific-notation-as-in-default-font/113231/3 "2024-04-19T17:27:32Z")
Try also the `pgfplotsx()` backend:
```julia
using LaTeXStrings, Plots; pgfplotsx()
p = plot(1:40, 1:40, axis=:log10, xticks=([1,2,10],[L"10^0",L"$2\times 10^0$","10"]));
plot!(p, size=(800,400))
```
