# Inaccurate tick marks in legend

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/inaccurate-tick-marks-in-legend/17573
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 20, 2026, 8:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/inaccurate-tick-marks-in-legend/17573 "2026-05-20T08:31:03Z")
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### Author: ![fvg](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@fvg](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fvg)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2026, 8:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/inaccurate-tick-marks-in-legend/17573/1 "2026-05-20T08:31:04Z")

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I set the jumps between colors to exact values, e.g. 7,5. However, the color bar puts the tick mark slightly off (esp. at 7,5). See image.

Enabling discretize to e.g. 1000 fixes this partly.

This seems like a bug, correct?

 ![2026-05-20 10_19_31-ParaView 6.0.1](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/a/0/a066157560849a356993c655a5f383630ab13026.png) ![2026-05-20 10_31_26-ParaView 6.0.1](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/0/4/0427f678b2cf4aaf88d272ad7e04eaa432165acc.png)

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2026, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/inaccurate-tick-marks-in-legend/17573/2 "2026-05-20T10:32:29Z")

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Yep, reported here: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/work\_items/17498](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/work_items/17498)