python用哪种字体_找出matplotlib使用哪种字体

Im looking for a nice way to get the name of the default font that is used by matplotlib.pyplot. The documentation indicates that the font is selected from the list in rcParams['font.family'] which is ordered top down by priority.

My first try was to check for warnings, i.e.,

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import warnings

for font in plt.rcParams['font.sans-serif']:

print font

with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:

warnings.simplefilter("always")

plt.rcParams['font.family'] = font

plt.text(0,0,font)

plt.savefig(font+'.png')

if len(w):

print "Font {} not found".format(font)

which gives me

Bitstream Vera Sans

Font Bitstream Vera Sans not found

DejaVu Sans

Lucida Grande

Font Lucida Grande not found

Verdana

Geneva

Font Geneva not found

Lucid

Font Lucid not found

Arial

Helvetica

Font Helvetica not found

Avant Garde

Font Avant Garde not found

sans-serif

I can tell that on this machine, DejaVu Sans is used by matplotlib.pyplot.

However, I thought there should be an easier way to obtain this information.

Edit:

The warning can be triggered directly via

matplotlib.font_manager.findfont(matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties(family=font))

解决方案

To obtain the font family:

matplotlib.rcParams['font.family']

If it's a general font family like 'sans-serif', use fontfind to find the actual font:

>>> from matplotlib.font_manager import findfont, FontProperties

>>> font = findfont(FontProperties(family=['sans-serif']))

>>> font

'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf'