[FIXED] matplotlit colorbar title hangs outside figure

Issue

What is the best way to specify my colorbar legend location while ensuring the legend title is within the figure? Sometimes the location will be upper right, as shown here; but in other plots it will be variable, upper/lower left/right.

It is okay if the solution doesn't use inset_axes().

Alternative Solution: It would also be okay if the colorbar legend is to the right of the subplot, if the "My Legend" title is vertical and on the left, and the tick labels are on the right and horizontal (I don't know how to do that).

Using Python 3.8.

## Second Plot
vals2 = ax2.scatter(df.x, df.y, edgecolors = 'none', c = df.z,
            norm = mcolors.LogNorm(), cmap=rainbow)
ax2.set_aspect('equal')
ax2.set_title('Subplot Title', style='italic');
ax2.set_xlabel('x');
ax2.set_ylabel('y');

cbaxes = inset_axes(ax2, width="30%", height="10%", location = 'upper right')
clb = plt.colorbar(vals2, cax=cbaxes, format = '%1.2f', orientation='horizontal');
clb.ax.set_title('My Legend')

Solution

I would still prefer to have the colorbar (with tick labels and title) inside the subplot; but I did find a way to do the Alternative Solution:

vals2 = ax2.scatter(df.x, df.y, edgecolors = 'none', c = df.z,
            norm = mcolors.LogNorm(), cmap=rainbow)
ax2.set_aspect('equal')
ax2.set_title('Subplot Title', style='italic');
ax2.set_xlabel('x');
ax2.set_ylabel('y');
clb = fig.colorbar(slips2, ax=ax2, format = '%1.2g', location='right', aspect=25)
clb.ax.set_ylabel('My Legend')
clb.ax.yaxis.set_label_position('left')

The color bar is taller than the subplot because ax2 is constrained to be equal xy aspect ratio based on the limits in another subplot (ax1, not shown).

Answered By - a11