Matplotlib: Changing the color of an axis

Question

Is there a way to change the color of an axis (not the ticks) in matplotlib? I have been looking through the docs for Axes, Axis, and Artist, but no luck; the matplotlib gal

Answer 1

When using figures, you can easily change the spine color with:

ax.spines['bottom'].set_color('#ffffdffffd')
ax.spines['top'].set_color('#ffffdffffd') 
ax.spines['right'].set_color('red')
ax.spines['left'].set_color('red')

Use the following to change only the ticks:

ax.tick_params(axis='x', colors='red')
ax.tick_params(axis='y', colors='red')

And the following to change only the label:

ax.yaxis.label.set_color('red')
ax.xaxis.label.set_color('red')

And finally the title:

ax.title.set_color('red')