# Plot x-axis with log scale

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-x-axis-with-log-scale/24318>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [May 17, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-x-axis-with-log-scale/24318 "2019-05-17T13:04:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-x-axis-with-log-scale/24318/1 "2019-05-17T13:04:58Z")

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I have two small questions related to plotting using the gr backend. How does one plot any plot so that the x-axis scale is log10, but that the numbers on the ticks are not 10-base exponents (i.e 1, 10 and 100 instead of 10⁰ 10¹ and 10²).

using StatsPlots, making a boxplot with xaxis=:log10 the box widths are also changed in scale so that ones closer to zero are narrower than those that are further away. How can I avoid this?