How to change legend fontname in matplotlib

Question

I would like to display a font in Times New Roman in the legend of a matplotlib plot. I have changed all other tick labels/axis labels/titles to Times New Roman, and have searched the documentation but I can only find how to change the font size in a legend using the prop argument in pyplot.legend()

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Of course straight after posting, I found the answer. Solution for anyone else with the same issue:

import matplotlib as mpl  
mpl.rc('font',family='Times New Roman')

Answer 1

This wasn't showing up in google results so I'm going to post it as an answer. The rc parameters for font can be used to set a single default font.

Solution for anyone else with the same issue:

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rc('font',family='Times New Roman')

Answer 2

The .rc solution given changes the default font for all drawing.

Here is a solution for doing this when you don't want to change all the fonts, but just the font properties of the legend of this particular graph (a legend belonging to a particular axis object):

L = ax.legend()
plt.setp(L.texts, family='Consolas')

This allows you to choose a different font for the legend and the axes. I found this helpful when I needed a monospace font for my legend, but not for the axes -- allowing me to create a neat legend like this:

Note how the title is a different font than the legend - this gives me an alignment of numbers that would otherwise be hard to achieve.