Posts tagged matplotlib
Load and plot a remote font with Matplotlib
- 06 December 2022
As part of my sphinx-social-previews
prototype, I wanted to be able to use the Roboto Font from Google in image previews.
However, Roboto is often not loaded on your local filesystem, so it took some digging to figure out how to make it possible to load via Matplotlib’s text plotting functionality.
Here’s the solution that finally worked for me, inspired from this Tweet with a similar implementation from the dmol
book.
