Ah, I didn't know there was a section of the rc file for legends. Adding

mpl.rcParams['font.family'] = 'serif'
mpl.rcParams['legend.fontsize'] = 'medium'

fixed things right up.

Thanks,
Jeff


On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:01 PM, <phob...@geosyntec.com> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> I send all of my figures through LaTeX and don't have this problem.  
> The only thing I can think of is to check your matplotlibrc file  
> and make sure you've set the legend font to be the same size as the  
> other fonts.
>
> HTH,
> -paul h.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeffrey Blackburne [mailto:je...@mit.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:45 AM
>> To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Matplotlib-users] LateX Legend (again)
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This has been brought up before, but not completely addressed. Is it
>> possible to get the text in a Legend to match the rest of the text
>> when using LateX? Here is an example of the problem:
>>
>> import matplotlib as mpl
>> mpl.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>
>> fig = plt.figure()
>> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>> ax.plot([1,5,2,3])   # random data
>> plt.figlegend(ax.lines,[r'$\rm{label}$ label'],loc='upper left')
>> plt.show()
>>
>> The first word is at least in a roman font, but the font size is
>> wrong. I am using svn revision 8005 with gtkagg backend on linux, and
>> confirm the behavior with 0.99.0 with tkagg on OS X.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>>
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