matplotlib + latex + 自定义ttf字体

Question

I have to make a figure in python. I need it to use the font Palatino. I downloaded the font here . I placed it under *\matplotlib\mpl-data\fonts\ttf (which turned out to be useless since I had to provide full path to make it work).

Using the following lines allows me to use the font:

prop = fm.FontProperties(fname='C:/Users/MyPC/pyApp/venv/Lib/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Palatino-Roman.ttf')
mpl.rcParams['font.family'] = prop.get_name()

Yay. Now when I want to use Latex in matplotlib,

rc('text',usetex=True)

the font is now not the one I want. I tried to follow the official page about that and instead use:

rc('font',**{'family':'serif','serif':['Palatino']})
rc('text', usetex=True)

but I cannot see any difference. I tried all possibilities and it looks like the same font. What am I doing wrong? Perhaps its the latex side that's lacking the required font package...

Answer 1

You can load any latex packages when using rc('text',usetex=True)

You can add this in your code:

plt.rcParams['text.latex.preamble'] = [r'\usepackage{palatino, mathpazo}']