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# Configuring the font family

You can explicitly set which font family is picked up for a given font style (e.g., ‘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, e.g.,:

    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', 'DejaVu Sans',
                                   'Lucida Grande', 'Verdana']

    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()

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