Matplotlib 2.x By Example

Font appearance

The size, style, fontweight, family, and variant parameters can be set under font. They can be set as keyword arguments directly in a text command:

plt.xlabel('xlabel',size=20,fontweight='semibold',family='serif',style='italic')

Or they can be stored and passed as a dictionary with keys of parameter names in strings and their corresponding values:

import matplotlib.pyplot as pltfontparams = {'size':16,'fontweight':'light',              'family':'monospace','style':'normal'}x = [1,2,3]y = [2,4,6]plt.plot(x,y)plt.xlabel('xlabel',size=20,fontweight='semibold',family='serif',style='italic')plt.ylabel('ylabel',fontparams)plt.show()

The preceding code sets different font families, sizes, weight, and style for the axis labels. You may experiment ...