How to change fonts in matplotlib python

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It sounds as an easy problem but I do not find any effective solution to change the font  not the font size  in a plot made with matplotlib in python   I found a couple of tutorials to change the default font of matplotlib by modifying some files in the folders where matplotlib stores its default font - see this blog post - but I am looking for a less radical solution since I would like to use more than one font in my plot  text  label  axis label  etc

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Say you want Comic Sans for the title and Helvetica for the x label   csfont     fontname   Comic Sans MS   hfont     fontname   Helvetica    plt title  title    csfont  plt xlabel  xlabel     hfont  plt show

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You can also use rcParams to change the font family globally    import matplotlib pyplot as plt  plt rcParams  font family      cursive     This will change to your computer s default cursive font   The list of matplotlib s font family arguments is here

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I prefer to employ   from matplotlib import rc  rc  font      family   sans-serif   sans-serif    Helvetica     rc  font      family   serif   serif    Times     rc  text   usetex True

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import pylab as plb plb rcParams  font size     12   or   import matplotlib pyplot as mpl mpl rcParams  font size     12

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The Helvetica font does not come included with Windows  so to use it you must download it as a  ttf file  Then you can refer matplotlib to it like this  replace  crm10 ttf  with your file    import os from matplotlib import font manager as fm  rcParams import matplotlib pyplot as plt  fig  ax   plt subplots    fpath   os path join rcParams  datapath     fonts ttf cmr10 ttf   prop   fm FontProperties fname fpath  fname   os path split fpath  1  ax set title  This is a special font      format fname   fontproperties prop  ax set xlabel  This is the default font    plt show     print fpath  will show you where you should put the  ttf   You can see the output here  https   matplotlib org gallery api font file html

[python] How to change fonts in matplotlib (python)?

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