How to change fonts in matplotlib (python)?

Question

It sounds as an easy problem but I do not find any effective solution to change the font (not the font size) in a plot made with matplotlib in python.

I found a couple of tutorials to change the default font of matplotlib by modifying some files in the folders where matplotlib stores its default font - see this blog post - but I am looking for a less radical solution since I would like to use more than one font in my plot (text, label, axis label, etc).

Answer 1

Say you want Comic Sans for the title and Helvetica for the x label.

csfont = {'fontname':'Comic Sans MS'} hfont = {'fontname':'Helvetica'}  plt.title('title',**csfont) plt.xlabel('xlabel', **hfont) plt.show() 

Answer 2

You can also use rcParams to change the font family globally.

 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  plt.rcParams["font.family"] = "cursive"  # This will change to your computer's default cursive font 

The list of matplotlib's font family arguments is here.