"""

You can explicitly set which font family is picked up for a given font

style (eg 'serif', 'sans-serif', or 'monospace').

In the example below, we only allow one font family (Tahoma) for the

san-serif font style. You the default family with the font.family rc

param, eg::

rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif'

and for the font.family you set a list of font styles to try to find

in order::

rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['Tahoma', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Verdana']

"""

# -*- noplot -*-

from matplotlib import rcParams

rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif'

rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = ['Tahoma']

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.plot([1,2,3], label='test')

ax.legend()

plt.show()