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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[ENH]: Make rotation_mode=\"xtick\" the default for ticks","articleBody":"#28968 introduced new rotation modes \"xtick\"/\"ytick\". We've employed them to all our examples, as this rotation setting is superior compared to fiddling with horizontal/verticalalignment. It's \"how tick rotation should be\".\n\n### Proposed solution\n\nMake these the default rotation modes for tick labels.\n\nTechnically, this is a breaking change, but I argue it's the better default and the breakage is minor:\n\n- If users did not specify alignment, it's changed from \"centered\" alignment to the \"pointing to tick\" aligment.\n- If users have cared to do the \"pointing\" to tick alignment manually (which is what we were teaching in examples before), their plot will stay the same.\n- If users have chosen other alignment, they'll need to adapt.\n\nThis is a tradeoff between making a reasonable default so that in the future rotated ticks are \"just right\" and people don't have to do `rotation_mode=\"xtick\"` explicitly all the time and breaking explicit alignment compatibility for a few rare edge cases.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/timhoffm","@type":"Person","name":"timhoffm"},"datePublished":"2025-04-16T07:40:51.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/29926/matplotlib/issues/29926"}