How to change fonts in matplotlib (python)?

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SirC picture SirC · Jan 24, 2014 · Viewed 154.3k times · Source

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).

Answer

aidnani8 picture aidnani8 · Jan 24, 2014

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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