How does one change the font size for all elements (ticks, labels, title) on a matplotlib plot?
I know how to change the tick label sizes, this is done with:
import matplotlib matplotlib.rc('xtick', labelsize=20) matplotlib.rc('ytick', labelsize=20)
But how does one change the rest?
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Answer
From the matplotlib documentation,
font = {'family' : 'normal', 'weight' : 'bold', 'size' : 22} matplotlib.rc('font', **font)
This sets the font of all items to the font specified by the kwargs object, font
.
Alternatively, you could also use the rcParams
update
method as suggested in this answer:
matplotlib.rcParams.update({'font.size': 22})
or
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 22})
You can find a full list of available properties on the Customizing matplotlib page.