.. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_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:: default 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() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_font_family_rc_sgskip.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: font_family_rc_sgskip.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: font_family_rc_sgskip.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_