diff --git a/core/src/ui/place.rs b/core/src/ui/place.rs
index 19ffae6..c821d91 100644
--- a/core/src/ui/place.rs
+++ b/core/src/ui/place.rs
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ impl PlaceDescAxis {
     /// a container dividing one axis says, since nothing divides the other.
     /// [`PlaceDesc::from_axis`] says the across one where it is not the
     /// whole.
-    pub const fn axis(self, axis: Axis) -> PlaceDesc {
+    pub const fn on_axis(self, axis: Axis) -> PlaceDesc {
         PlaceDesc::from_axis(axis, self, Self::WHOLE)
     }
 
diff --git a/src/random.rs b/src/random.rs
index 6bf939c..2f37937 100644
--- a/src/random.rs
+++ b/src/random.rs
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ impl Widget for Branch {
         let cut = Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, Px::from_int(40));
         let top = UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut).shifted_desc();
         let measured = painter
-            .widget_at(&self.probe, top.axis(Axis::Y))
+            .widget_at(&self.probe, top.on_axis(Axis::Y))
             .len(Axis::X);
         let len = measured.apply_leftover();
         let px = painter.to_px(len, Axis::X);
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ impl Widget for Branch {
         painter.window_holds(Axis::X, holds.through(len));
 
         let below = UiSpan::new(cut, painter.region_len(Axis::Y)).shifted_desc();
-        let place = below.axis(Axis::Y);
+        let place = below.on_axis(Axis::Y);
         match px > threshold {
             true => painter.widget_at(&self.wide, place),
             false => painter.widget_at(&self.narrow, place),
diff --git a/src/widget/position/scroll.rs b/src/widget/position/scroll.rs
index 7e66cc8..f8973ef 100644
--- a/src/widget/position/scroll.rs
+++ b/src/widget/position/scroll.rs
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ impl Widget for Scroll {
         // reports is a fraction of what is on screen rather than of the
         // content box its own answer decided. Where it goes is the content
         // box, scrolled: its drawing moved there, not made again there.
-        painter.place_at(&self.inner, content.axis(self.axis).fills());
+        painter.place_at(&self.inner, content.on_axis(self.axis).fills());
         // What it occupies is its box, on both axes: it clips its content to
         // that box, so it can neither take less of one nor honestly ask for
         // more. The content's length is what it scrolls through, not what it
diff --git a/src/widget/position/span.rs b/src/widget/position/span.rs
index b99ef0b..0a3b822 100644
--- a/src/widget/position/span.rs
+++ b/src/widget/position/span.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
                     // Across itself the child sits where its own alignment
                     // says, in the whole of the row: a span is what contains
                     // its children there, and nothing divides that axis.
-                    let room = along(cursor, far).shifted_desc().axis(axis);
+                    let room = along(cursor, far).shifted_desc().on_axis(axis);
                     painter.widget_at(child, room).len(axis)
                 }
             };
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
             // fixed child's slot is its own answer, so a drawing made in the
             // room is put there as it is, and one not made yet is made here.
             let slot = along(from, start);
-            let mut place = slot.shifted_desc().fills().axis(axis);
+            let mut place = slot.shifted_desc().fills().on_axis(axis);
             if len.leftover > Weight::ZERO && shares {
                 place = place.rel_base(axis, slot.len());
             }
diff --git a/tests/cases/determinism.rs b/tests/cases/determinism.rs
index fd98eb3..8a5bfe1 100644
--- a/tests/cases/determinism.rs
+++ b/tests/cases/determinism.rs
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ impl Widget for BranchesOnMeasurement {
         let cut = Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, Px::from_int(40));
         let top = UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, cut).shifted_desc();
         let measured = painter
-            .widget_at(&self.probe, top.axis(Axis::Y))
+            .widget_at(&self.probe, top.on_axis(Axis::Y))
             .len(Axis::X);
         let px = painter.to_px(measured.apply_leftover(), Axis::X);
 
         let below = UiSpan::new(cut, painter.region_len(Axis::Y)).shifted_desc();
-        let place = below.axis(Axis::Y);
+        let place = below.on_axis(Axis::Y);
         match px > Px::from_f32(self.threshold) {
             true => painter.widget_at(&self.wide, place),
             false => painter.widget_at(&self.narrow, place),
diff --git a/tests/cases/retained.rs b/tests/cases/retained.rs
index c95f213..019a0fb 100644
--- a/tests/cases/retained.rs
+++ b/tests/cases/retained.rs
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ impl Widget for FromHint {
     fn draw(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> Size {
         let len = painter.size_hint(&self.inner, Axis::Y).unwrap();
         let top = UiSpan::new(Len::ZERO, Len::from_parts(Rel::ZERO, len.px));
-        painter.widget_at(&self.inner, top.shifted_desc().axis(Axis::Y));
+        painter.widget_at(&self.inner, top.shifted_desc().on_axis(Axis::Y));
         Size::LEFTOVER
     }
 }