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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 Configuring the font family and Fonts demo (object-oriented style).
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()
References
The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: