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

[Yi S. <mir...@gm...>]

Hi Ben,
Thanks for the reply. I did try to match font.family and font.$family and I
am using matplotlib 0.99.0.
I did find something interesting...

For testing, I tried only using font.family line, (deleting font.$family
line). I got reasonable font for "monospace", "fantasy" "sans-serif" and
"serif" family, but "cursive" looked exactly the same as "sans-serif", which
is the default font.family value.

Then, I added font.$family line. When font.family and font.$family  match,
as you suggested, I always get the default font as if I only specified
font.family as sans-serif. {''font.family' : 'fantasy',  'font.fantasy' :
'Chicago'} gives me the default font, {''font.family' : 'fantasy',
 'font.fantasy' : 'foo'} also gives me the default font ('Chicago is
actually in 'fantasy' family, 'foo' is not).

Then I tried to mismatch font.family and font.$family, since they are not
matching, font.$family is not taking effect, I am getting whatever
font.family line is giving me.

I think the syntax I used may be wrong. Anyone has any idea how to specify a
specific font name within a font family?

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

>   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
>



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Yi (Miranda) Shang
PhD candidate
Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stony Brook University