From 527108f283526f534646c4bed94e3d4a766b36e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clemens Brunner <clemens.brunner@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:51:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Fix top and bottom clipping

---
 mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py b/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py
index 47a26047768..d8d9e1d9be2 100644
--- a/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py
+++ b/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ def __init__(self, inst, figsize, ica=None, xlabel="Time (s)", **kwargs):
         # XXX simpler with constrained_layout? (when it's no longer "beta")
         l_margin = 1.0
         r_margin = 0.1
-        b_margin = 0.45
+        b_margin = 0.65
         t_margin = 0.25
         scroll_width = 0.25
         hscroll_dist = 0.25
@@ -1424,10 +1424,10 @@ def _draw_annotations(self):
                     text = ax.annotate(
                         descr,
                         xy,
-                        xytext=(0, 9),
+                        xytext=(0, -3),
                         textcoords="offset points",
                         ha="center",
-                        va="baseline",
+                        va="top",
                         color=segment_color,
                     )
                     self.mne.annotation_texts.append(text)

From 18a57d4ebfb173a92b13a1784f7b8a0c8241c447 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clemens Brunner <clemens.brunner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:55:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add changelog entry

---
 doc/changes/dev/13787.bugfix.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/changes/dev/13787.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/doc/changes/dev/13787.bugfix.rst b/doc/changes/dev/13787.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9cbf372c36b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changes/dev/13787.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix clipped annotations and x-axis label in :meth:`mne.io.Raw.plot`, by `Clemens Brunner`_.
\ No newline at end of file

From 07ef170169a2e6f59d0e06978f04579d5eb759f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clemens Brunner <clemens.brunner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:01:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Increase z-order of annotations

---
 mne/viz/_figure.py     | 1 +
 mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mne/viz/_figure.py b/mne/viz/_figure.py
index 1c93a258dff..2879d57683f 100644
--- a/mne/viz/_figure.py
+++ b/mne/viz/_figure.py
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
             grad=10007,
             scalebar=10008,
             vline=10009,
+            ann_text=10010,
         )
         # additional params for epochs (won't affect raw / ICA)
         self.mne.epoch_traces = list()
diff --git a/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py b/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py
index d8d9e1d9be2..f298b4b1672 100644
--- a/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py
+++ b/mne/viz/_mpl_figure.py
@@ -1429,6 +1429,7 @@ def _draw_annotations(self):
                         ha="center",
                         va="top",
                         color=segment_color,
+                        zorder=self.mne.zorder["ann_text"],
                     )
                     self.mne.annotation_texts.append(text)
         self.mne.onscreen_annotations = onscreen_annotations