Does the following work for you? Or I am missing something. Label label = new Label("Application"); label.setRotate(270); On 9/10/14, Victor Grazi <vgrazi at gmail.com> wrote: > In JavaFX 8, is it possible to rotate the text in a label so that instead > of left to right it reads bottom to top? I.e., to rotate the entire label > 90° counterclockwise >