You spent several months on this article, so, the extra hour to make a nice plot out of a poor plot is worth it. If you need to move labels in stereo plots, make sure that you move them equally much in both halves of the plot. If you want to add labels to a stereo plot, add them in both halves of the plot with the same translation relative to the atom you want to label. Think of the final size of the plot . Stereo plots can never be wider than 6.25 centimeter.
Some journals require plots to be exactly one or two columns wide.
This puts some constraints on what you can put in a picture. Make plots too big . Make plots bigger than they should become in the journal. However, scale everyting, including labels linewidth, etc. Look at the costs .