[matplotlib-devel] Font rc-setting not updating

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

The title is a bit misleading: The problem is that the last font-related
rc-setting seems to override all previous settings. To clarify, if I save a
figure with certain font settings and *after that* change the rc-setting,
the older figure appears to have the newer setting. Note that this only
appears to happen with fonts---the linewidth setting, for example, shows up
as expected. (See script belows)


-Tony


import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def test_simple_plot():
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    ax.plot([0, 1])
    ax.set_xlabel('x-label')
    ax.set_ylabel('y-label')
    ax.set_title('title')

    return fig

plt.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 10
plt.rcParams['font.family'] = 'serif'
plt.rcParams['font.size'] = 20
fig1 = test_simple_plot()

plt.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 1
plt.rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif'
plt.rcParams['font.size'] = 10
fig2 = test_simple_plot()

plt.show()