The boolean behavior of showOverlappingLabels is too restrictive for some use cases, especially categorical scales like we get with keyword fields. In these cases, users should be able to see every label on the X axis without overlap. Neither of these options works for me:

Setting a -45º angle on the labels helps prevent obvious overlap but is not as visually appealing:

I don't have a solution to this problem, but I have observed several options that would be worth considering:

• Wrap the labels Axes labels should wrap their text #313
• Calculate label positioning the same way pie charts do @monfera
• Create multiple rows/columns and draw labels that are not all directly next to each other
• Automatically tilt labels in some cases

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