# Set custom colorbar tick-labels

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-custom-colorbar-tick-labels/69806>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, plotting, plots\
**Created:** [October 15, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-custom-colorbar-tick-labels/69806 "2021-10-15T07:07:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-custom-colorbar-tick-labels/69806/2 "2021-10-15T08:20:15Z")

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It doesn’t seem that this is currently possible with the Plots.jl gr() backend.

It might be feasible with the pyplot backend - [linking related thread.](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-colorbar-tick-labels/69632)

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