René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Fallback font doesn't work on windows?","articleBody":"This is a test failure `matplotlib.tests.test_text.test_font_styles.test` which results in an image without any text on it (found as part of https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/5922)\n\n```\nimport matplotlib\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n%matplotlib inline\nfrom matplotlib import _get_data_path\ndata_path = _get_data_path()\n\nfrom matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties, findfont\n\nnormalFont = dict(\n    family=\"sans-serif\",\n    style=\"normal\",\n    variant=\"normal\",\n    size=14)\n\nprop = FontProperties(**normalFont)\npath = findfont(prop, directory=data_path)\nprint(path)\nfp = FontProperties(fname=path)\n\nplt.figure()\nax = plt.subplot(1, 1, 1)\n\nax.annotate(\n    \"Normal Font\",\n    (0.1, 0.1),\n    xycoords='axes fraction',\n    fontproperties=fp)\n\nax.set_xticks([])\nax.set_yticks([])\n```\n\nThis results in the following output:\n\n```\nC:\\portabel\\miniconda\\envs\\matplotlib_build\\lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib-1.5.1+1064.g4f14fc8-py3.5-win-amd64.egg\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\fonts\\ttf\\STIXSizOneSymBol.ttf\nc:\\data\\external\\pydata\\matplotlib\\lib\\matplotlib\\font_manager.py:1314: UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['sans-serif'] not found. Falling back to DejaVu Sans\n  (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))\nc:\\data\\external\\pydata\\matplotlib\\lib\\matplotlib\\font_manager.py:1324: UserWarning: findfont: Could not match :family=DejaVu Sans:style=normal:variant=normal:weight=400:stretch=normal:size=14.0. Returning C:\\portabel\\miniconda\\envs\\matplotlib_build\\lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib-1.5.1+1064.g4f14fc8-py3.5-win-amd64.egg\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\fonts\\ttf\\STIXSizOneSymBol.ttf\n  UserWarning)\nOut[14]: []\n```\n\nThe produces image has not text on it :-(\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jankatins","@type":"Person","name":"jankatins"},"datePublished":"2016-01-27T20:38:32.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/5929/matplotlib/issues/5929"}