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andy90
andy90

Reputation: 555

set the font of xlabel to be Arial in matplotlib

I am wondering how to set the font of xlabel to be Arial using matplotlib. I checked functions like Axes.set_xlabel but does not see options to change that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8698

Answers (1)

mostlyoxygen
mostlyoxygen

Reputation: 991

The Axes.set_xlabel and pyplot's xlabel functions can take the same keyword arguments as the Text class. This is noted in the documentation in the Other Parameters section.

One of these arguments is family, which can be used to set the font by family ('serif', 'sans-serif', etc., as shown in the font demo) or by font name. In your case it could be as simple as

plt.xlabel('My Label', family='Arial')

or

ax.set_xlabel('My Label', family='Arial')
# Assuming ax is an instance of Axes.

Upvotes: 2

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