A very basic query This code plots OK the axis values are in bold but the axis labels are not. how do I get them in bold too? thanks Nevil Amos plot(c(1,1),xlim=c(0,450),ylim=c(0.7,1.4),xlab="Distance (cells) from edge of grid",ylab="Resistance distance", type="l",col="white",lwd=2,font=2,family='sans')