# Plots.jl/Makie.jl tick locations?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-makie-jl-tick-locations/31371
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plotting
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-makie-jl-tick-locations/31371 "2019-11-22T02:32:14Z")
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### Author: ![Raf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raf/32/3383_2.png) [@Raf](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Raf)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-makie-jl-tick-locations/31371/1 "2019-11-22T02:32:15Z")

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I’m wondering if there is a way of specifying the location of the ticks/ labels within each x/y value - ie start, center, end.

For an example application, sometimes you want the month to show as the whole period, not the start of it. Or the cell value of a spatial heatmap is actually at the center, not the left edge of each pixel. Is it possible to make this kind of distinction in Plots or Makie?

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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: [November 22, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-makie-jl-tick-locations/31371/2 "2019-11-22T07:17:14Z")

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With Plots you can pass a tuple of `(positions, labels)` to `ticks`.