Re: [Matplotlib-users] change font name (under certain font.family)

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Yi Shang <mir...@gm...> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I was trying to change all figure fonts to Arial, or Times, but without any
> luck.
> below is the section I modify the property.
>
> ***************************************************************************************
> from numpy import *
> from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
> import pylab
> params = {'font.size' : 16,
>           'axes.labelsize' : 16,
>           'font.style' : 'normal',
>           'font.family' : 'sans-serif',
>         'font.sans-serif' : 'Arial'
> }
> pylab.rcParams.update(params)
>
> ****************************************************************************************
> The font.family line seems to be working ( I get different fonts when I
> specify 'sans-serif' or 'monospace'), but changing font.sans-serif has no
> effect at all. If the resulting figure is not changing, does it mean the
> font used is always the default in sans-serif family(Bitstream Vera Sans)? I
> wonder why matplotlib doesn't use more common fonts as default, like Arial
> or Times which are accepted by most journals..
>
>
> Thank you!
>

Yi,

This is just a guess, but I wonder if there might be a slight mistake on how
you are specifying the font.  If 'font.family' is set to 'monospace', then
the font name has to be assigned to 'font.monospace', not
'font.sans-serif'.  Does that make a difference?

Ben Root