# How does one add padding to the data axes labels? or maybe even some offset?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 29, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026 "2025-07-29T23:10:05Z")
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### Author:  [@abidoescfd](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/abidoescfd)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/1 "2025-07-29T23:10:05Z")
Hello everyone! ParaView is amazing, but I have found that I couldn’t offset my data axes labels from the ticks. I really need the numbers on the axes grid to be large, and the same needs to be done with the label, but unfortunately, once you cross a certain threshold, they intersect.
Is there any way to achieve my desired outcome? Using custom bounds is not a solution because no matter how many sets of custom bounds I give, the label is large enough to intersect all of them.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/2 "2025-08-04T12:44:16Z")
Can you share the image you get and what is wrong with it ?
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### Author:  [@abidoescfd](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/abidoescfd)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/3 "2025-08-10T00:10:10Z")
Hello @mwestphal!
Here are a couple of images that show what’s wrong:
I want to increase the distance between the grid numbers and the label (X/D). I could, of course, create specific bounds to avoid this issue, but I simply don’t want to.
Sorry for the late reply ☹
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/4 "2025-08-25T08:40:39Z")
Looks like a bug to me, please share data and steps to reproduce.
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### Author:  [@abidoescfd](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/abidoescfd)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/5 "2025-08-25T16:35:15Z")
Hey @mwestphal I unfortunately cannot share my exact data, but I’m pretty sure any dataset would reproduce this since it’s a conflict between the labels and the grid. The spacing is the issue here.
Here are the steps:
1. Turn on axes grids,
2. modify the axes grids settings — increase the font size of the numbers in the grid
3. Increase the font size of the labels in the grids
My issue is: How can I manually control the spacing between labels and the ticks/numbers?
My current Paraview version is 5.11.2
Thank you so much!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/6 "2025-08-26T07:19:44Z")
Indeed, I reproduce.
> How can I manually control the spacing between labels and the ticks/numbers?
You cant, instead ParaView should compute that automatically to ensure there is no overlap, but it doesnt yet.
Please open an issue [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues)
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### Author:  [@Parv621](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Parv621)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 2:24am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/7 "2026-03-20T02:24:22Z")
Facing the issue as of Mar 2026. Paraview 5.13.2 on Windows
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 8:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/8 "2026-03-20T08:20:26Z")
Please test with latest nightly and open an issue if still present.
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### Author:  [@sea](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sea)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-does-one-add-padding-to-the-data-axes-labels-or-maybe-even-some-offset/17026/9 "2026-06-14T21:23:47Z")
I think you can turn off rendering the axis labels. Then take a screenshot and put it into powerpoint or such apps. You can manually add labels in these softwares then take a final screenshot to get a good layout.