Bug summary

Sometimes, the axis tick labels overlaps. In such cases, manually adjusting their positions slightly is one solution. However, I found that this doesn't seem to work.

Here is a simple example. I simulated a situation where the text would overlap by setting a smaller figure size.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(0.2, 0.2))
ax = fig.subplots(1, 1)
ax.plot(range(10), range(10))
plt.show()

As it can be seen, the y-axis labels '0' and '5' have some overlap.

Then, I obtained the y-axis tick label objects using get_yticklabels and tried to raise the position of '5' using set_position. As shown below, nothing changed.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(0.2, 0.2))
ax = fig.subplots(1, 1)
ax.plot(range(10), range(10))
texts = ax.get_yticklabels()
for text in texts:
    if text.get_text() == "5":
        text.set_position((0, 6))
plt.show()

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

The position of '5' on the y-axis should be adjusted upwards.

Additional information

No response

Operating system

Debian

Matplotlib Version

3.10.1

Matplotlib Backend

module://matplotlib_inline.backend_inline

Python version

3.13.2

Jupyter version

4.4.0

Installation

pip