# Makie: How to hide axes while plotting text

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [June 2, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604 "2020-06-02T10:45:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![themadprogramer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/themadprogramer/32/14086_2.png) [@themadprogramer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/themadprogramer)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/1 "2020-06-02T10:45:37Z")

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As I was starting to lose hope in the future of Julia in terms of applicability, I happened to discover [Makie.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl) and I am **loving it** so far.

A small question I’d like to ask is how one might hide axes, if only plotting text:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/9/29905025a641bc2099f2b86fb33586d4b26ad752.png)

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/2 "2020-06-02T11:03:49Z")

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Makie is becoming integrated with MakieLayout - for now check out that package, which should have what you need.

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**Author:** ![themadprogramer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/themadprogramer/32/14086_2.png) [@themadprogramer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/themadprogramer)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/3 "2020-06-02T11:09:36Z")

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> which should have what you need.

Could you be a bit more specific? There don’t seem to be a whole lot of examples and the docs on MakieLayout appear a bit WIP 🙄 It seems a bit too overkill to switch to MakieLayout for this one simple thing.

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**Author:** ![cserteGT3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/csertegt3/32/8283_2.png) [@cserteGT3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cserteGT3)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/4 "2020-06-02T14:19:07Z")

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Can’t test it now (from phone), but does the `show_axis=false` keyword argument solve it?

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/5 "2020-06-02T14:50:57Z")

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If you think something is missing from or unclear in MakieLayout’s docs you could open an issue. What do you need examples of that aren’t there?

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**Author:** ![themadprogramer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/themadprogramer/32/14086_2.png) [@themadprogramer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/themadprogramer)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/6 "2020-06-02T15:17:13Z")

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Just what I was looking for!

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**Author:** ![themadprogramer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/themadprogramer/32/14086_2.png) [@themadprogramer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/themadprogramer)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/7 "2020-06-02T15:18:40Z")

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I’ll also be sure to keep MakieLayout in mind, but will be sticking to Makie (Vanilla) for my current project. And since Makie already has a solution for this I don’t think I need to open any doc issues.

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-how-to-hide-axes-while-plotting-text/40604/8 "2020-06-02T15:25:13Z")

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> [@themadprogramer](#):
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> There don’t seem to be a whole examples and the docs on MakieLayout appear a bit WIP 🙄

Sure thing, MakieLayout’s name suggests it’s only for layouting, but it evolved into doing more than that. For simple things you might get by just fine with the standard tools