# Greek letters using LaTex in surface type plot
**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/greek-letters-using-latex-in-surface-type-plot/2358
**Category:** plotly.js
**Created:** [October 10, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/greek-letters-using-latex-in-surface-type-plot/2358 "2016-10-10T20:26:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@homonovus](https://community.plotly.com/u/homonovus)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/greek-letters-using-latex-in-surface-type-plot/2358/1 "2016-10-10T20:26:41Z")
Hi,
is it possible to use LaTex to have greek letters as labels in surface type plot?
I prepared example of what I was hoping will produce plot with labels in greek letter:
[Example plot](https://jsfiddle.net/erw12mow/)
I tried to use greek letter Phi.
It worked as expected for the colorbar title, but I can’t make it work for axis title.
I put following code for axis:
xaxis: {
title: ‘$\Phi$’,
showgrid: true,
zeroline: false
},
But in the plot instead of greek letter Phi I get $Phi$ as axis label.
Is it not possible to achieve that or am I doing something wrong?
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### Author:  [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/greek-letters-using-latex-in-surface-type-plot/2358/2 "2016-10-11T20:45:28Z")
Unfortunately, no.
LaTeX rendering is not available in our 3D trace types.
See [https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/608](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/608) for more details.
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### Author:  [@homonovus](https://community.plotly.com/u/homonovus)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/greek-letters-using-latex-in-surface-type-plot/2358/3 "2016-10-11T21:06:27Z")
Thank you for your quick response
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### Author:  [@william.williamkane7](https://community.plotly.com/u/william.williamkane7)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 1:36am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/greek-letters-using-latex-in-surface-type-plot/2358/4 "2026-09-26T01:36:56Z")
You could try using the Unicode character directly instead of That can be a simple way to test whether the issue is specifically with LaTeX rendering. If you need to find or compare different Unicode letter forms, this may also be useful: [https://gerador-br.com/letras-diferentes/](https://gerador-br.com/letras-diferentes/)For the surface plot itself, I’d check that the axis title is defined under since 3D surface axes use the scene configuration.