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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Vertical alignment of text is too high","articleBody":"One of the improvements to matplotlib 1.3.0 is supposed to be improved vertical alignment of text, but it appears to have gotten worse in my experience.  Here is an example:\n\n```\nimport matplotlib.pylab as plt\nmpl.rcParams['font.size'] = 24\nfig = plt.figure(figsize = (5,5))\nax = plt.subplot(111)\nax.plot([0,1], [0,1])\n\ntxts = ['1', '2', '3']\ny_coords = [0.8, 0.5, 0.2]\nfor txt, y_coord in zip(txts, y_coords):\n    ax.annotate(txt, xy = (0.25, y_coord), fontname = 'Helvetica', \\\n        size=36, va='center', ha='center', \\\n        bbox=dict(boxstyle='square', fc = 'w'))\n\nplt.savefig('Test.png', bbox_inches = 'tight', pad_inches = 0)\n```\n\nIn matplotlib 1.2.1 the png looks like this\n\n![test_mpl_1 2 1](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/4099759/1348845/084b2db4-36d7-11e3-8366-613f010a891b.png)\n\nbut in matplotlib 1.3.0 the png looks like this\n\n![test_mpl_1 3](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/4099759/1348848/4dfc388a-36d7-11e3-85d8-3fffd7e15fba.png)\n\nThe numbers in the the v1.3.0 png are too high.  The numbers should be in the center of the rectangular boxes, and the center of the tick mark numbers should line up with the tick marks.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/breedlun","@type":"Person","name":"breedlun"},"datePublished":"2013-10-17T02:57:27.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/2527/matplotlib/issues/2527"}