Stop scaling font sizes on assignment

lukelbd · lukelbd · commit 983968e493ae · 2020-05-20T02:21:15.000-06:00
diff --git a/proplot/axes/plot.py b/proplot/axes/plot.py
@@ -2074,7 +2074,11 @@ def text_wrapper(
     fontsize = _not_none(fontsize, size)
     fontfamily = _not_none(fontname, fontfamily, family)
     if fontsize is not None:
-        kwargs['fontsize'] = units(fontsize, 'pt')
+        try:
+            rc._scale_font(fontsize)  # *validate* but do not translate
+        except KeyError:
+            fontsize = units(fontsize, 'pt')
+        kwargs['fontsize'] = fontsize
     if fontfamily is not None:
         kwargs['fontfamily'] = fontfamily
     if not transform:
diff --git a/proplot/config.py b/proplot/config.py
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ def _get_synced_params(self, key, value):
         # TODO: Incorporate into more sophisticated validation system
         if any(REGEX_POINTS.match(_) for _ in keys):
             try:
-                value = self._scale_font(value)
+                self._scale_font(value)  # *validate* but do not translate
             except KeyError:
                 value = units(value, 'pt')
 
diff --git a/proplot/utils.py b/proplot/utils.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import re
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib.colors as mcolors
+import matplotlib.font_manager as mfonts
 from matplotlib import rcParams
 from numbers import Number, Integral
 from .internals import ic  # noqa: F401
@@ -581,8 +582,6 @@ def units(value, dest='in', axes=None, figure=None, width=True):
     fontsize_small = rcParams['font.size']  # must be absolute
     fontsize_large = rcParams['axes.titlesize']
     if isinstance(fontsize_large, str):
-        import matplotlib.font_manager as mfonts
-        # error will be raised somewhere else if string name is invalid!
         scale = mfonts.font_scalings.get(fontsize_large, 1)
         fontsize_large = fontsize_small * scale
 
