• Use font from google fonts
• Use icon from font awesome
• Set the font and use it easily
• Helpful error message to get your font name right

pip install mpl_fontkit

import mpl_fontkit as fk

# https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato?query=Lato
fk.install("Lato")

If the font does not available in matplotlib, this will download from Google and add it to matplotlib.

To check available styles for a font

fk.font_table("Lato")

And then you are ready to use it in your plots

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.text("Lato Font", fontdict={"style": "italic", "weight": 700, "size": 24})

To install font awesome and use it in your plot.

fk.install_fontawesome()

plt.text(.5, .5, "\uf58b\uf005\uf59b", fontfamily="Font Awesome 6 Free")

The font awesome is available as Font Awesome 6 Free and Font Awesome 6 Brands, the name of icon is encoded as unicode.

You can search for icons and get the unicode here.

To set a font manually. This will update the rcParams for you.

import mpl_fontkit as fk

fk.set_font("Lato")

Most of the time when you can't get the font to work simply because the font name is not the same as the file name. You can just type a fuzzy name, we will try to find a similar name and show you in the error message.

import mpl_fontkit as fk

fk.set_font("Lat")

LookupError: Cannot find Lat, do you mean: Lato. 
    Use `.list_fonts()` to list all the available fonts.

fk.list_fonts()

['Agency FB',
 'Algerian',
 'Arial',
 'Arial Rounded MT Bold',
 'Bahnschrift',
 'Baskerville Old Face',
 'Bauhaus 93',
 ...]
 

Show one font

fk.show("Lato")

Show all fonts at once

fk.show_fonts()