diff --git a/src/sisl/viz/figure/matplotlib.py b/src/sisl/viz/figure/matplotlib.py
index 3b30524a4..5b35317e8 100644
--- a/src/sisl/viz/figure/matplotlib.py
+++ b/src/sisl/viz/figure/matplotlib.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def _init_axes(self):
         self.axes.update(self._axes_defaults)
 
     def _init_figure_subplots(self, rows, cols, **kwargs):
-        self.figure, self.axes = plt.subplots(rows, cols)
+        self.figure, self.axes = plt.subplots(rows, cols, **kwargs)
 
         # Normalize the axes array to have two dimensions
         if rows == 1 and cols == 1: