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.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_font_file.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_font_file.py:


===================================
Using a ttf font file in Matplotlib
===================================

Although it is usually not a good idea to explicitly point to a single ttf file
for a font instance, you can do so by passing a `pathlib.Path` instance as the
*font* parameter.  Note that passing paths as `str`\s is intentionally not
supported, but you can simply wrap `str`\s in `pathlib.Path`\s as needed.

Here, we use the Computer Modern roman font (``cmr10``) shipped with
Matplotlib.

For a more flexible solution, see
:doc:`/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/font_family_rc_sgskip` and
:doc:`/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/fonts_demo`.

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.. code-block:: default


    from pathlib import Path

    import matplotlib as mpl
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    fpath = Path(mpl.get_data_path(), "fonts/ttf/cmr10.ttf")
    ax.set_title(f'This is a special font: {fpath.name}', font=fpath)
    ax.set_xlabel('This is the default font')

    plt.show()





.. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_file_001.png
    :alt: This is a special font: cmr10.ttf
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img





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.. admonition:: References

   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
   in this example:

   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title`


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_font_file.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_file.py <font_file.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: font_file.ipynb <font_file.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot
    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery
    <https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io>`_