# Plots.jl Align legend labels, :right not working
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-align-legend-labels-right-not-working/60493
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plotting, recipe
**Created:** [May 4, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-align-legend-labels-right-not-working/60493 "2021-05-04T01:51:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@VMHidalgo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VMHidalgo)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-align-legend-labels-right-not-working/60493/1 "2021-05-04T01:51:37Z")
Hi,
I am getting familiar with the Plots recipes ecosystem, and I just wrote my first recipe but the attribute “legendfonthalign” does not seem to work. Does anyone know how to do it?
Here is a MWE
```julia
@recipe function f(g::CVEpdfPlot)
legend --> false
legendfonthalign := :right # this should work!!! right?
grid := false
linewidth := 1
linestyle := :solid
@series begin
seriestype := :density
[g.args...]
end
end
```
And when I call that plot (with some extra features, like the rainbow color) I get this,with the legend text aligned to the :left ,
what maybe happening?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-align-legend-labels-right-not-working/60493/2 "2021-05-04T07:44:07Z")
Does it work when you pass it explicitly like `plot(my_cve_object, legendfonthalign = :right)`?
Also which backend are you using? Note that `legendfonthalign` is only supported by GR and PGFPlotsX according to [the docs](https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/supported/).
That said, just doing `plot(rand(10, 10), legendfonthalign = :right)` doesn’t seem to do anything for me even with the GR backend, so maybe this isn’t the way to use the attribute, or there’s a bug somewhere in Plots…
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-align-legend-labels-right-not-working/60493/3 "2021-05-04T09:41:04Z")
No success either with `legendfonthalign` attribute.
A workaround is to left-pad the labels beforehand and use a font such as Courier so that the columns of characters are consistently aligned.
Computer Modern legends are not perfectly aligned but look better:
```julia
using LaTeXStrings, Plots; gr()
default(fontfamily="Computer Modern")
n = 3:2:23
x = 0:0.01:1; y = [3*n*exp.(-(n*(x .- 0.6)).^4) for n in n];
labels= permutedims(string.(n) .* " [s]")
n = maximum(length.(labels))
plot(x, y, label=lpad.(labels,n), legend=:outertopright) # legendfont=font(6,"Courier")
plot!(xlabel=L"CVE",ylabel=L"Density")
```
Legend with Courier font:
Legend with Computer Modern font:
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### Author:  [@VMHidalgo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VMHidalgo)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-align-legend-labels-right-not-working/60493/4 "2021-05-04T22:49:22Z")
@nilshg @rafael.guerra I appreciate your help guys.
I am using gr() actually, and the lpad solution seems to be good enough at this point. I can save it as a SVG and then align it by hand. Obviously a Plots.jl solution would be ideal.
Thank you!