.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/font_family_rc.py"
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.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

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

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_font_family_rc.py>`
        to download the full example code

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

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_font_family_rc.py:


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

You can explicitly set which font family is picked up, either by specifying
family names of fonts installed on user's system, or generic-families
(e.g., 'serif', 'sans-serif', 'monospace', 'fantasy' or 'cursive'),
or a combination of both.
(see :ref:`text_props`)

In the example below, we are overriding the default sans-serif generic family
to include a specific (Tahoma) font. (Note that the best way to achieve this
would simply be to prepend 'Tahoma' in 'font.family')

The default family is set with the font.family rcparam,
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']

.. redirect-from:: /gallery/font_family_rc_sgskip

The ``font.family`` defaults are OS dependent and can be viewed with:

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.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    print(plt.rcParams["font.sans-serif"][0])
    print(plt.rcParams["font.monospace"][0])






.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out

 .. code-block:: none

    DejaVu Sans
    DejaVu Sans Mono




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Choose default sans-serif font

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.. code-block:: Python


    def print_text(text):
        fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6, 1), facecolor="#eefade")
        ax.text(0.5, 0.5, text, ha='center', va='center', size=40)
        ax.axis("off")
        plt.show()


    plt.rcParams["font.family"] = "sans-serif"
    print_text("Hello World! 01")





.. image-sg:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_001.png
   :alt: font family rc
   :srcset: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_001.png, /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_001_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





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Choose sans-serif font and specify to it to "Nimbus Sans"

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.. code-block:: Python


    plt.rcParams["font.family"] = "sans-serif"
    plt.rcParams["font.sans-serif"] = ["Nimbus Sans"]
    print_text("Hello World! 02")





.. image-sg:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_002.png
   :alt: font family rc
   :srcset: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_002.png, /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_002_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





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Choose default monospace font

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.. code-block:: Python


    plt.rcParams["font.family"] = "monospace"
    print_text("Hello World! 03")





.. image-sg:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_003.png
   :alt: font family rc
   :srcset: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_003.png, /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_003_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





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Choose monospace font and specify to it to "FreeMono"

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.. code-block:: Python


    plt.rcParams["font.family"] = "monospace"
    plt.rcParams["font.monospace"] = ["FreeMono"]
    print_text("Hello World! 04")



.. image-sg:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_004.png
   :alt: font family rc
   :srcset: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_004.png, /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_font_family_rc_004_2_00x.png 2.00x
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img






.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_font_family_rc.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

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

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

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

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


.. only:: html

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

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_