title: subplots are overlapping axis labels
body: <p>I have created a figure in python which contains multiple subplots. I have also added various axis labels to some of the axes on the figures. For examples:</p>
  
  <pre><code>plt.xlabel('Phase ($^\circ$)',fontsize=10)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I notice though, that when the final figure is produced, the other subplots are allowed to overlap and obscure the words of the axis labels.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way that I can stop this happening?</p>