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<h1>Text properties and layout<a class="headerlink" href="#text-properties-and-layout" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h1>

Controlling properties of text and its layout with Matplotlib.

<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/text_api.html#matplotlib.text.Text" title="matplotlib.text.Text"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">matplotlib.text.Text</code></a> instances have a variety of properties which can be

configured via keyword arguments to <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">set_title</code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlabel.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlabel" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlabel"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">set_xlabel</code></a>,

<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.text.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.text" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.text"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">text</code></a>, etc.

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<th class="head">Value Type</th>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>alpha</td>

<td><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="(in Python v3.11)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">float</code></a></td>

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<td>any matplotlib <a class="reference internal" href="../colors/colors.html">color</a></td>

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<td><a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="matplotlib.patches.Rectangle"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Rectangle</code></a> prop dict plus key <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'pad'</code> which is a pad in points</td>

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<td>a matplotlib.transform.Bbox instance</td>

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<td>a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/path_api.html#matplotlib.path.Path" title="matplotlib.path.Path"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Path</code></a> instance and a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/transformations.html#matplotlib.transforms.Transform" title="matplotlib.transforms.Transform"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Transform</code></a> instance, a <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Patch.html#matplotlib.patches.Patch" title="matplotlib.patches.Patch"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Patch</code></a></td>

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<td>any matplotlib <a class="reference internal" href="../colors/colors.html">color</a></td>

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<tr class="row-odd"><td>family</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'serif'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'sans-serif'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'cursive'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'fantasy'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'monospace'</code> ]</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>fontproperties</td>

<td><a class="reference internal" href="../../api/font_manager_api.html#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties" title="matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">FontProperties</code></a></td>

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<tr class="row-odd"><td>horizontalalignment or ha</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'center'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'right'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'left'</code> ]</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>label</td>

<td>any string</td>

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<tr class="row-odd"><td>linespacing</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>multialignment</td>

<td>[<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'left'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'right'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'center'</code> ]</td>

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<tr class="row-odd"><td>name or fontname</td>

<td>string e.g., [<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'Sans'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'Courier'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'Helvetica'</code> ...]</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>picker</td>

<td>[None|float|bool|callable]</td>

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<tr class="row-odd"><td>position</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>rotation</td>

<td>[ angle in degrees | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'vertical'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'horizontal'</code> ]</td>

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<tr class="row-odd"><td>size or fontsize</td>

<td>[ size in points | relative size, e.g., <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'smaller'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'x-large'</code> ]</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>style or fontstyle</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'italic'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'oblique'</code> ]</td>

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<td>string or anything printable with '%s' conversion</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>transform</td>

<td><a class="reference internal" href="../../api/transformations.html#matplotlib.transforms.Transform" title="matplotlib.transforms.Transform"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate">Transform</code></a> subclass</td>

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<tr class="row-odd"><td>variant</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'small-caps'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td>verticalalignment or va</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'center'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'top'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'bottom'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'baseline'</code> ]</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>visible</td>

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<tr class="row-even"><td>weight or fontweight</td>

<td>[ <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'bold'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'heavy'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'light'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'ultrabold'</code> | <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'ultralight'</code>]</td>

</tr>

</tr>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td>zorder</td>

<td>any number</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

You can lay out text with the alignment arguments

<code class="docutils literal notranslate">horizontalalignment</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">verticalalignment</code>, and

<code class="docutils literal notranslate">multialignment</code>. <code class="docutils literal notranslate">horizontalalignment</code> controls whether the x

positional argument for the text indicates the left, center or right

side of the text bounding box. <code class="docutils literal notranslate">verticalalignment</code> controls whether

the y positional argument for the text indicates the bottom, center or

top side of the text bounding box. <code class="docutils literal notranslate">multialignment</code>, for newline

separated strings only, controls whether the different lines are left,

center or right justified. Here is an example which uses the

<a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.text.html#matplotlib.pyplot.text" title="matplotlib.pyplot.text"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate">text()</code></a> command to show the various alignment

possibilities. The use of <code class="docutils literal notranslate">transform=ax.transAxes</code> throughout the

code indicates that the coordinates are given relative to the axes

bounding box, with (0, 0) being the lower left of the axes and (1, 1) the

upper right.

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import matplotlib.patches as patches

# build a rectangle in axes coords

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">left</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">width</a> = .25, .5

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">bottom</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">height</a> = .25, .5

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">right</a> = <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">left</a> + <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">width</a>

<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">top</a> = <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">bottom</a> + <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">height</a>

<a href="../../api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure" title="matplotlib.figure.Figure" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-figure sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">fig</a> = <a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.figure.html#matplotlib.pyplot.figure" title="matplotlib.pyplot.figure" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-pyplot sphx-glr-backref-type-py-function">plt.figure</a>()

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-axes sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">ax</a> = <a href="../../api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_axes" title="matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_axes" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-figure sphx-glr-backref-type-py-method">fig.add_axes</a>([0, 0, 1, 1])

# axes coordinates: (0, 0) is bottom left and (1, 1) is upper right

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-patches sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">p</a> = <a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-patches sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class">patches.Rectangle</a>(

(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">left</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">bottom</a>), <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">width</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">height</a>,

fill=False, transform=<a href="../../api/transformations.html#matplotlib.transforms.BboxTransformTo" title="matplotlib.transforms.BboxTransformTo" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-transforms sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">ax.transAxes</a>, clip_on=False

)

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.add_patch.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.add_patch" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.add_patch" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-axes sphx-glr-backref-type-py-method">ax.add_patch</a>(<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.patches.Rectangle.html#matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" title="matplotlib.patches.Rectangle" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-patches sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">p</a>)

horizontalalignment='left',

verticalalignment='top',

transform=<a href="../../api/transformations.html#matplotlib.transforms.BboxTransformTo" title="matplotlib.transforms.BboxTransformTo" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-transforms sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">ax.transAxes</a>)

horizontalalignment='left',

verticalalignment='bottom',

horizontalalignment='right',

verticalalignment='bottom',

horizontalalignment='right',

verticalalignment='top',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='top',

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.text.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.text" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.text" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-axes sphx-glr-backref-type-py-method">ax.text</a>(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">left</a>, 0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">bottom</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">top</a>), 'right center',

horizontalalignment='right',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation='vertical',

horizontalalignment='left',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation='vertical',

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.text.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.text" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.text" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-axes sphx-glr-backref-type-py-method">ax.text</a>(0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">left</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">right</a>), 0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">bottom</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">top</a>), 'middle',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='center',

fontsize=20, color='red',

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.text.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.text" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.text" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-axes sphx-glr-backref-type-py-method">ax.text</a>(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">right</a>, 0.5*(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">bottom</a>+<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float" title="builtins.float" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance">top</a>), 'centered',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation='vertical',

horizontalalignment='center',

verticalalignment='center',

rotation=45,

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_axis_off.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_axis_off" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_axis_off" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-axes sphx-glr-backref-type-py-method">ax.set_axis_off</a>()

<a href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.show.html#matplotlib.pyplot.show" title="matplotlib.pyplot.show" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-matplotlib-pyplot sphx-glr-backref-type-py-function">plt.show</a>()

</pre></div>

</div>

<h1>Default Font<a class="headerlink" href="#default-font" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h1>

The base default font is controlled by a set of rcParams. To set the font

for mathematical expressions, use the rcParams beginning with <code class="docutils literal notranslate">mathtext</code>

(see <a class="reference internal" href="mathtext.html#mathtext-fonts">mathtext</a>).

<thead>

<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">rcParam</th>

<th class="head">usage</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.family'</code></td>

<td>List of font families (installed on user's machine)

and/or <code class="docutils literal notranslate">{'cursive', 'fantasy', 'monospace',

'sans', 'sans serif', 'sans-serif', 'serif'}</code>.</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.style'</code></td>

<td>The default style, ex <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code>,

<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'italic'</code>.</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.variant'</code></td>

<td>Default variant, ex <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'small-caps'</code>

(untested)</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.stretch'</code></td>

<td>Default stretch, ex <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'normal'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'condensed'</code>

(incomplete)</td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.weight'</code></td>

<td>Default weight. Either string or integer</td>

</tr>

<td>Default font size in points. Relative font sizes

(<code class="docutils literal notranslate">'large'</code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'x-small'</code>) are computed against

this size.</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

Matplotlib can use font families installed on the user's computer, i.e.

Helvetica, Times, etc. Font families can also be specified with

generic-family aliases like (<code class="docutils literal notranslate">{'cursive', 'fantasy', 'monospace',

'sans', 'sans serif', 'sans-serif', 'serif'}</code>).

Note

To access the full list of available fonts:

</pre></div>

</div>

The mapping between the generic family aliases and actual font families

(mentioned at <a class="reference internal" href="../introductory/customizing.html">default rcParams</a>)

is controlled by the following rcParams:

<thead>

<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">CSS-based generic-family alias</th>

<th class="head">rcParam with mappings</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'serif'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.serif'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'monospace'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.monospace'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'fantasy'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.fantasy'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'cursive'</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.cursive'</code></td>

</tr>

<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">{'sans', 'sans serif', 'sans-serif'}</code></td>

<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.sans-serif'</code></td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

If any of generic family names appear in <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.family'</code>, we replace that entry

by all the entries in the corresponding rcParam mapping.

For example:

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>matplotlib.rcParams['font.family'] = ['Family1', 'serif', 'Family2']

matplotlib.rcParams['font.serif'] = ['SerifFamily1', 'SerifFamily2']

# This is effectively translated to:

matplotlib.rcParams['font.family'] = ['Family1', 'SerifFamily1', 'SerifFamily2', 'Family2']

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<h2>Text with non-latin glyphs<a class="headerlink" href="#text-with-non-latin-glyphs" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>

As of v2.0 the <a class="reference internal" href="../../users/prev_whats_new/dflt_style_changes.html#default-changes-font">default font</a>, DejaVu, contains

glyphs for many western alphabets, but not other scripts, such as Chinese,

Korean, or Japanese.

To set the default font to be one that supports the code points you

need, prepend the font name to <code class="docutils literal notranslate">'font.family'</code> (recommended), or to the

desired alias lists.

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre># first method

matplotlib.rcParams['font.family'] = ['Source Han Sans TW', 'sans-serif']

# second method

matplotlib.rcParams['sans-serif'] = ['Source Han Sans TW', ...]

</pre></div>

</div>

The generic family alias lists contain fonts that are either shipped

alongside Matplotlib (so they have 100% chance of being found), or fonts

which have a very high probability of being present in most systems.

A good practice when setting custom font families is to append

a generic-family to the font-family list as a last resort.

You can also set it in your <code class="file docutils literal notranslate">.matplotlibrc</code> file:

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>font.family: Source Han Sans TW, Arial, sans-serif

</pre></div>

</div>

To control the font used on per-artist basis use the name, fontname or

fontproperties keyword arguments documented <a class="reference internal" href="#">above</a>.

On linux, <a class="reference external" href="https://linux.die.net/man/1/fc-list">fc-list</a> can be a

useful tool to discover the font name; for example

<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre>$ fc-list :lang=zh family

Noto to Sans Mono CJK TC,Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Bold

Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC Medium

Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC DemiLight

Noto Sans CJK KR,Noto Sans CJK KR Black

Noto Sans CJK TC,Noto Sans CJK TC Black

Noto Sans Mono CJK TC,Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Regular

Noto Sans CJK SC,Noto Sans CJK SC Light

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