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        "\n# Configure the font family\n\nYou can explicitly set which font family is picked up, either by specifying\nfamily names of fonts installed on user's system, or generic-families\n(e.g., 'serif', 'sans-serif', 'monospace', 'fantasy' or 'cursive'),\nor a combination of both.\n(see `text_props`)\n\nIn the example below, we are overriding the default sans-serif generic family\nto include a specific (Tahoma) font. (Note that the best way to achieve this\nwould simply be to prepend 'Tahoma' in 'font.family')\n\nThe default family is set with the font.family rcparam,\ne.g. ::\n\n  rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif'\n\nand for the font.family you set a list of font styles to try to find\nin order::\n\n  rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['Tahoma', 'DejaVu Sans',\n                                 'Lucida Grande', 'Verdana']\n\n.. redirect-from:: /gallery/font_family_rc_sgskip\n\nThe ``font.family`` defaults are OS dependent and can be viewed with:\n"
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        "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n\nprint(plt.rcParams[\"font.sans-serif\"][0])\nprint(plt.rcParams[\"font.monospace\"][0])"
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      "cell_type": "markdown",
      "metadata": {},
      "source": [
        "Choose default sans-serif font\n\n"
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        "def print_text(text):\n    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6, 1), facecolor=\"#eefade\")\n    ax.text(0.5, 0.5, text, ha='center', va='center', size=40)\n    ax.axis(\"off\")\n    plt.show()\n\n\nplt.rcParams[\"font.family\"] = \"sans-serif\"\nprint_text(\"Hello World! 01\")"
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      "cell_type": "markdown",
      "metadata": {},
      "source": [
        "Choose sans-serif font and specify to it to \"Nimbus Sans\"\n\n"
      ]
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      "execution_count": null,
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        "plt.rcParams[\"font.family\"] = \"sans-serif\"\nplt.rcParams[\"font.sans-serif\"] = [\"Nimbus Sans\"]\nprint_text(\"Hello World! 02\")"
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      "cell_type": "markdown",
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      "source": [
        "Choose default monospace font\n\n"
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      "execution_count": null,
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      "source": [
        "plt.rcParams[\"font.family\"] = \"monospace\"\nprint_text(\"Hello World! 03\")"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cell_type": "markdown",
      "metadata": {},
      "source": [
        "Choose monospace font and specify to it to \"FreeMono\"\n\n"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cell_type": "code",
      "execution_count": null,
      "metadata": {
        "collapsed": false
      },
      "outputs": [],
      "source": [
        "plt.rcParams[\"font.family\"] = \"monospace\"\nplt.rcParams[\"font.monospace\"] = [\"FreeMono\"]\nprint_text(\"Hello World! 04\")"
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