diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 0b4ebefb..45d54ec7 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ FixedPointNumbers = "53c48c17-4a7d-5ca2-90c5-79b7896eea93"
 GR = "28b8d3ca-fb5f-59d9-8090-bfdbd6d07a71"
 GeometryTypes = "4d00f742-c7ba-57c2-abde-4428a4b178cb"
 JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
+LaTeXStrings = "b964fa9f-0449-5b57-a5c2-d3ea65f4040f"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Measures = "442fdcdd-2543-5da2-b0f3-8c86c306513e"
 NaNMath = "77ba4419-2d1f-58cd-9bb1-8ffee604a2e3"
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ FixedPointNumbers = "0.6, 0.7, 0.8"
 GR = "0.46, 0.47, 0.48"
 GeometryTypes = "0.7, 0.8"
 JSON = "0.21"
+LaTeXStrings = "1"
 Measures = "0.3"
 NaNMath = "0.3"
 PGFPlotsX = "1.2.0"
diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
index 672636c6..3cb2673b 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using Contour: Contour
+using LaTeXStrings
 using UUIDs
 Base.@kwdef mutable struct PGFPlotsXPlot
     is_created::Bool = false
@@ -900,6 +901,12 @@ function pgfx_sanitize_string(s::AbstractString)
     s = replace(s, r"\\?\%" => "\\%")
     s = replace(s, r"\\?\_" => "\\_")
     s = replace(s, r"\\?\&" => "\\&")
+    s = replace(s, r"\\?\{" => "\\{")
+    s = replace(s, r"\\?\}" => "\\}")
+end
+function pgfx_sanitize_string(s::LaTeXString)
+    s = replace(s, r"\\?\#" => "\\#")
+    s = replace(s, r"\\?\%" => "\\%")
 end
 function pgfx_sanitize_plot!(plt)
         for (key, value) in plt.attr