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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[ENH]: Allow specifying a typeface instead of a font","articleBody":"### Problem\n\nMatplotlib has font settings for each font family. This makes it unnecessarily cumbersome to adopt a consistent appearance when using different families.\n\n### Proposed solution\n\nInstead of specifying a font for every family, it would be handy to simply configure matplotlib to use a certain [typeface](https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/typeface), e.g. through a rc key `font.typeface`. matplotlib could then try to find the font matching `font.typeface` and the family specified by `font.family`. \n\nFor example, setting `font.typeface = 'DejaVu'` and `font.family = 'sans'` would resolve to `DejaVu Sans`. This would arguably make it easier to switch font families and stay within a given typeface for a consistent appearance. If no match is found, one could always fall back to the fonts listed in `font.{family}`.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/thangleiter","@type":"Person","name":"thangleiter"},"datePublished":"2025-04-03T19:33:12.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/29866/matplotlib/issues/29866"}