Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fonts not found

[Friedrich R. <fri...@gm...>]

2011/1/20 Uri Laserson <las...@mi...>:
> Hi all,
> I recently reinstalled MPL from scratch on top of python2.7 that I built
> from scratch using homebrew on OS X Snow Leopard.  Since then, I have been
> getting the following types of warnings whenever I plot something:
> /Users/laserson/matplotlib/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1242:
> UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['sans-serif'] not found. Falling back to
> Bitstream Vera Sans
>   (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))

I'm not sure what you mean by "using homebrew" (is this a software
package or do you mean you compiled it yourself), but have you
specified anything special in your matplotlibrc?

Friedrich