# Makie log scale axis with nicer ticks

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**Created:** [January 22, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-log-scale-axis-with-nicer-ticks/125062 "2025-01-22T08:15:34Z")\
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For more ticks that are at nice readable locations, like 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, … instead of 10^0, 10^0.5, 10^1, …, there’s `BaseMulTicks([1,2,5])` in MakieExtra.jl. It puts ticks at the specified multiples of each base power (10^n by default).  
See the y axis in the examples from the docs:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/9/99f1086975504714ea192fbfc889bee306733292.png)

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