I am hoping to have a general discussion about font choices other matplotlib users make when the figure will be seen by someone other than yourself. Generally speaking, my figures go in to technical memos, automatically generated reports, and on rare occasion a web page.
For memos (created in your standard word processor at a 12 pt font), I tend to use a 10 pt font on everything (tick labels, axis labels, legend entries, etc). At work we use Myriad Pro (a sans serif font) for all of our maps, which works well with plots since it goes well with matplotlib's stix-sans math text option. My automatically generated reports are always compiled using Latex with the fourier package, which uses the utopia fonts (serif). So in matplotlib I always set usetex to True and add the \usepackage{fourier} command since that provides a seamless text and math-text font with support for the upright Greek letter mu. The upright mu is crucial for environmental data since the quantities that I'm plotting are typically in micrograms per liter or kilogram. For static images in webpages and presentations, I go back to my sans-serif configuration and bump up the fonts as needed. Also, my axes and tick label markers are 0.5 pt wide, though I'll bump that up to 1.0 if a very large figure is needed. Cheers, -paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users