# Rotating the axes labels in GR

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rotating-the-axes-labels-in-gr/52379
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** plots, gr
**Created:** [December 25, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rotating-the-axes-labels-in-gr/52379 "2020-12-25T18:38:39Z")
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### Author: ![bhaveshshrimali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bhaveshshrimali/32/13233_2.png) [@bhaveshshrimali](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bhaveshshrimali)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rotating-the-axes-labels-in-gr/52379/1 "2020-12-25T18:38:39Z")

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Hi everyone,

I was trying to use the `GR` (version: `[28b8d3ca] GR v0.53.0`) backend with the axes label on the `y` axis rotated clockwise by 90 degrees. Consider the following snippet

```julia
using Plots, LaTeXStrings
gr()
λ_linear = range(1.0, stop=6.0, length=600)
plot(λ_linear, sin.(λ_linear) + sin.(10*λ_linear), xlims=(1, 6), ylims=(-3, 3), color=:blue, xticks=([1,2,3,4,5,6], [L"1", L"2", L"3", L"4", L"5", L"6"]),
yticks = ([-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3], [L"-3", L"-2", L"-1", L"0", L"1", L"2", L"3"]), label=L"\mathcal{A}_1", size=(1000,800),
tickfont = (18, :black), legendfont = (16, :black), xlabel=L"\lambda_1", ylabel=L"\lambda_2", yguidefontrotation = -90, guidefont = (22, :black),
legend=:topleft, framestyle=:box, marker=true, markersize=4, markerstrokewidth =0, dpi=300)

savefig("trial.png")

```

but setting the keyword arg `yguidefontrotation` to `-90` (after looking at [docs](https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/gr/)) seems to have no effect. Any hints?

 ![trial](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/a/d/ad69f173a6ff2f9b1d0a4999ef226ca8840261d8.png)

The `Plots.jl` version I am using is `[91a5bcdd] Plots v1.9.1`. I haven’t checked out `PyPlot` yet but wanted to see if `GR` could work…

[EDIT] With `pyplot` backend, everything seems to work as expected. But I would still like to know if there is a workaround with `GR`. As a side note, the size of the `ylabel` is a bit off if I compare with `GR` (seems smaller than `xlabel`)

 ![trialNew](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/0/9/09c006b6a4edc710f3bf3f6bfd16008d828ce391.png)

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### Author: ![AndiMD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/andimd/32/6531_2.png) [@AndiMD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AndiMD)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rotating-the-axes-labels-in-gr/52379/2 "2020-12-26T21:19:24Z")

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This looks like an obvious bug, since rotation of the x axis label works. Please raise an issue with Plots.jl, if no similar issue exists.

Unfortunately, this alternative syntax shows the same issue:  
`plot(rand(32), yaxis = ("y", font("Courier",10,0.0,0.0,90.0)), margins=10Plots.mm)`