I'm using Matplotlib to plot a histogram. Using tips from my previous question: Matplotlib - label each bin, I've more or less got the kinks worked out. There's one final issue - previously - the x-axis label ("Time (in milliseconds)") was being rendered underneath the x-axis tickmarks (0.00, 0.04, 0.08, 0.12 etc.) Using the advice from Joe Kingston (see question above), I tried using: ax.tick_params(axis='x', pad=30) However, this moves both the x-axis tickmarks (0.00, 0.04, 0.08, 0.12 etc.), as well as the x-axis label ("Time (in milliseconds)"): Is there any way to move only the x-axis label to underneath the three rows of figures? NB: You may need to open the PNGs below directly - Right Click on the image, then View Image (in FF), or Open image in new tab (Chrome). The image resize done by SO has rendered them nigh unreadable Continue reading...