# Square plots in GR

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/square-plots-in-gr/78988>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, plotting, plots\
**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/square-plots-in-gr/78988 "2022-04-04T07:57:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jackwoodside](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jackwoodside/32/35181_2.png) [@jackwoodside](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jackwoodside)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/square-plots-in-gr/78988/1 "2022-04-04T07:57:02Z")

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I am currently trying to make a contour plot of a a 100x100 matrix using Plots with the GR backend. Since it is a square matrix I would like the contour plot to be square also. Someone suggested to me using `aspect_ratio=:equal` to achieve this, but rather than adding whitespace around the figure, it adds it inside the axis, so the plot looks odd, as can be seen below.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/a/2a22ae4d4f9712088a098831f4612fe943f35667.png)

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**Author:** ![jackwoodside](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jackwoodside/32/35181_2.png) [@jackwoodside](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jackwoodside)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/square-plots-in-gr/78988/2 "2022-04-04T07:58:35Z")

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My end goal would be a layout similar to this

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/2/7248648c272de677ade3b6341e79a60fae4c3817.png)

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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/square-plots-in-gr/78988/3 "2022-04-04T08:07:29Z")

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For a square-domain, you can use a single keyword `lims` (otherwise: `xlims`, `ylims`)

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**Author:** ![jackwoodside](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jackwoodside/32/35181_2.png) [@jackwoodside](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jackwoodside)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 8:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/square-plots-in-gr/78988/4 "2022-04-04T08:14:07Z")

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Thank you so much, this worked perfectly.