Bug summary

3D text rotated along a given axis, e.g. zdir = "x" or zdir = (1, 0, 0), is always rotated roughly 60 degrees and does not respect the rotation argument for changing the orientation to e.g. 0 or 90 to be parallel with the specified axis.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw = {"projection" : "3d"})
ax.text(0.3, 0.4, 0, "Horizontal", zdir = (1, 0, 0), rotation = 0, rotation_mode = "default", fontsize = 20)
ax.text(0.3, 0.1, 0, "Vertical", zdir = (1, 0, 0), rotation = 90, rotation_mode = "default", fontsize = 20)
plt.show()

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

Additional information

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Operating system

Windows

Matplotlib Version

3.6.0

Matplotlib Backend

TkAgg

Python version

3.10.6

Jupyter version

No response

Installation

pip