{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "\n# Using ttf font files\n\nAlthough it is usually not a good idea to explicitly point to a single ttf file\nfor a font instance, you can do so by passing a `pathlib.Path` instance as the\n*font* parameter. Note that passing paths as `str`\\s is intentionally not\nsupported, but you can simply wrap `str`\\s in `pathlib.Path`\\s as needed.\n\nHere, we use the Computer Modern roman font (``cmr10``) shipped with\nMatplotlib.\n\nFor a more flexible solution, see\n:doc:`/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/font_family_rc` and\n:doc:`/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/fonts_demo`.\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from pathlib import Path\n\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n\nimport matplotlib as mpl\n\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\n\nfpath = Path(mpl.get_data_path(), \"fonts/ttf/cmr10.ttf\")\nax.set_title(f'This is a special font: {fpath.name}', font=fpath)\nax.set_xlabel('This is the default font')\n\nplt.show()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ ".. admonition:: References\n\n The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown\n in this example:\n\n - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title`\n\n" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.13.2" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 0 }