Spacing Issue with X and y Axis

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My titles are obscured by the scale values on the x and y axis of my bar graph. I have used the following code to move the title
bar._axis_properties(axis='y', title_size= 15, title_offset= -10, label_align= 'left', label_angle= 0, color='#000000')

However when I implement this code the scale values then move to what seems to be offset 0, causing them to be half in the graph. Is there a way to control the offset of these scale values?