Plots.jl: Changing fonts in pyplot

[swt30]

How do I change the font face with the pyplot backend? I've set titlefont = font("Times", 14) and so on, but only the size change seems to get picked up. I'm also not having any luck directly altering the matplotlib rcParams dictionary.

[tbreloff]

You have the right idea. Maybe "Times" isn't supported?

On Monday, September 12, 2016, Scott Thomas [email protected]
wrote:

How do I change the font face with the pyplot backend? I've set titlefont
= font("Times", 14) and so on, but only the size change seems to get
picked up. I'm also not having any luck directly altering the matplotlib
rcParams dictionary.

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[swt30]

This works fine:

using PyPlot
rc("font", family="serif")
plot(rand(20))
title("Here's the title")

But not this:

using Plots
pyplot(tickfont=font("serif"), titlefont=font("serif"))
plot(rand(20), title="Here's the title")

[swt30]

I have just managed to make it work by calling PyPlot.rc("font", family="serif") before plot though.

[tbreloff]

Ok thanks. Do any other fonts work? tickfont? legwndfont?

On Monday, September 12, 2016, Scott Thomas [email protected]
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I have just managed to make it work by calling PyPlot.rc("font",
family="serif") before plot though.

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[swt30]

Nope, none of those.

[tbreloff]

So there was a slight problem in pyplot font families... umm.. I was never setting them! :)

dev branch:

using Plots; pyplot()
f=font(13,"cursive")
p = plot(rand(10), title="HI", titlefont=f, tickfont=f, legendfont=f, yguide="I'm a Y", guidefont=f)

I could make it easier to change the font family... but that should be a different issue.