.. _sphx_glr_gallery_api_font_family_rc_sgskip.py:


===========================
Configuring the font family
===========================

You can explicitly set which font family is picked up for a given font
style (e.g., 'serif', 'sans-serif', or 'monospace').

In the example below, we only allow one font family (Tahoma) for the
sans-serif font style.  You the default family with the font.family rc
param, e.g.,::

  rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif'

and for the font.family you set a list of font styles to try to find
in order::

  rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['Tahoma', 'DejaVu Sans',
                                 'Lucida Grande', 'Verdana']




.. code-block:: python



    from matplotlib import rcParams
    rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif'
    rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['Tahoma']
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1, 2, 3], label='test')

    ax.legend()
    plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.000 seconds)



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     :download:`Download Python source code: font_family_rc_sgskip.py <font_family_rc_sgskip.py>`



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