Python matplotlib decrease size of colorbar labels

Question

I need your help! I have a plotting code which is the following:

fig = plt.figure() ax1 = fig.add_subplot(111)  imax1 = ax1.imshow(data,interpolation = 'nearest', origin = 'lower',cmap=cm.jet)#plot cbar = plt.colorbar(imax1, extend='neither', spacing='proportional',                 orientation='vertical', shrink=0.7, format="%.0f") cbar.set_label(r"ET [mm/month]", size=10)  titlestr = "Evapotranspiration in mm/month" plt.title(titlestr) #plt.xlabel("Longitude") #plt.ylabel("Latitude") imax1.set_clim(0,60) labels = [item.get_text() for item in ax1.get_xticklabels()] for ii in range(np.shape(labels)[0]):     labels[ii] = str(grid_lon[75*ii/np.shape(labels)[0]])  ax1.set_xticklabels(labels, rotation = 45, ha='right', size = 10)  labels = [item.get_text() for item in ax1.get_yticklabels()] for ii in range(np.shape(labels)[0]):     labels[ii] = str(grid_lat[75*ii/np.shape(labels)[0]])  ax1.set_yticklabels(labels, size = 10)  pngname = "./out/2d_"+variable+"_"+mm+".png" print "save ", pngname plt.savefig(pngname, dpi=None, facecolor='w', edgecolor='w',     orientation='portrait', papertype=None, format=None,     transparent=False, bbox_inches=None, pad_inches=0.1)   print "plot finished" 

I would like to set the label size of the colorbar labels (e.g. 0,10,20,...60) to size of 10 or smaller. This will probably go into the line "imax1.set_clim(0,60). Any ideas? I'd be also interested to print information of the imax1 object to command line. How could I do that? E.g. available attributes and functions of imax1.

I deeply appreciate your help!

Answer 1

Aha! Found the answer here:

cbar.ax.tick_params(labelsize=10)  

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Answer 2

If you are here because you're trying to increase font size, but some numbers disappear because of big size with the above answer, you can do

cbar = plt.colorbar() for t in cbar.ax.get_yticklabels():      t.set_fontsize(20)