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<spanid="matplotlib-font-manager"></span><h2><aclass="reference internal" href="#module-matplotlib.font_manager" title="matplotlib.font_manager"><ttclass="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">matplotlib.font_manager</span></tt></a><aclass="headerlink" href="#module-matplotlib.font_manager" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>A module for finding, managing, and using fonts across platforms.</p>
<p>This module provides a single <aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager" title="matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager"><ttclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">FontManager</span></tt></a> instance that can
be shared across backends and platforms. The <aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.findfont" title="matplotlib.font_manager.findfont"><ttclass="xref py py-func docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">findfont()</span></tt></a>
function returns the best TrueType (TTF) font file in the local or
system font path that matches the specified <aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties" title="matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties"><ttclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">FontProperties</span></tt></a>
instance. The <aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager" title="matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager"><ttclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">FontManager</span></tt></a> also handles Adobe Font Metrics
(AFM) font files for use by the PostScript backend.</p>
<p>The design is based on the <aclass="reference external" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/">W3C Cascading Style Sheet, Level 1 (CSS1)
font specification</a>.
Future versions may implement the Level 2 or 2.1 specifications.</p>
<p>Experimental support is included for using <ttclass="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">fontconfig</span></tt> on Unix
variant platforms (Linux, OS X, Solaris). To enable it, set the
constant <ttclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">USE_FONTCONFIG</span></tt> in this file to <ttclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">True</span></tt>. Fontconfig has
the advantage that it is the standard way to look up fonts on X11
platforms, so if a font is installed, it is much more likely to be
found.</p>
<dlclass="class">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.FontEntry">
<emclass="property">class </em><ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">FontEntry</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>fname=u''</em>, <em>name=u''</em>, <em>style=u'normal'</em>, <em>variant=u'normal'</em>, <em>weight=u'normal'</em>, <em>stretch=u'normal'</em>, <em>size=u'medium'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontEntry" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>A class for storing Font properties. It is used when populating
the font lookup dictionary.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="class">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager">
<emclass="property">class </em><ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">FontManager</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>size=None</em>, <em>weight=u'normal'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descname">findfont</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>prop</em>, <em>fontext=u'ttf'</em>, <em>directory=None</em>, <em>fallback_to_default=True</em>, <em>rebuild_if_missing=True</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.findfont" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Search the font list for the font that most closely matches
the <aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties" title="matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties"><ttclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">FontProperties</span></tt></a><em>prop</em>.</p>
<p><aclass="reference internal" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.findfont" title="matplotlib.font_manager.findfont"><ttclass="xref py py-meth docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">findfont()</span></tt></a> performs a nearest neighbor search. Each
font is given a similarity score to the target font
properties. The first font with the highest score is
returned. If no matches below a certain threshold are found,
the default font (usually Vera Sans) is returned.</p>
<p><ttclass="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">directory</span></tt>, is specified, will only return fonts from the
given directory (or subdirectory of that directory).</p>
<p>The result is cached, so subsequent lookups don’t have to
perform the O(n) nearest neighbor search.</p>
<p>If <ttclass="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">fallback_to_default</span></tt> is True, will fallback to the default
font family (usually “Bitstream Vera Sans” or “Helvetica”) if
<emclass="property">static </em><ttclass="descname">get_default_size</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.get_default_size" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descname">get_default_weight</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.get_default_weight" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descname">score_family</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>families</em>, <em>family2</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.score_family" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a match score between the list of font families in
<em>families</em> and the font family name <em>family2</em>.</p>
<p>An exact match anywhere in the list returns 0.0.</p>
<p>A match by generic font name will return 0.1.</p>
<ttclass="descname">score_size</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>size1</em>, <em>size2</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.score_size" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a match score between <em>size1</em> and <em>size2</em>.</p>
<p>If <em>size2</em> (the size specified in the font file) is ‘scalable’, this
function always returns 0.0, since any font size can be generated.</p>
<p>Otherwise, the result is the absolute distance between <em>size1</em> and
<em>size2</em>, normalized so that the usual range of font sizes (6pt -
<ttclass="descname">score_stretch</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>stretch1</em>, <em>stretch2</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.score_stretch" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a match score between <em>stretch1</em> and <em>stretch2</em>.</p>
<p>The result is the absolute value of the difference between the
CSS numeric values of <em>stretch1</em> and <em>stretch2</em>, normalized
<ttclass="descname">score_style</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>style1</em>, <em>style2</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.score_style" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a match score between <em>style1</em> and <em>style2</em>.</p>
<p>An exact match returns 0.0.</p>
<p>A match between ‘italic’ and ‘oblique’ returns 0.1.</p>
<ttclass="descname">score_variant</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>variant1</em>, <em>variant2</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.score_variant" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a match score between <em>variant1</em> and <em>variant2</em>.</p>
<ttclass="descname">score_weight</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>weight1</em>, <em>weight2</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.score_weight" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a match score between <em>weight1</em> and <em>weight2</em>.</p>
<p>The result is the absolute value of the difference between the
CSS numeric values of <em>weight1</em> and <em>weight2</em>, normalized
<ttclass="descname">set_default_weight</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>weight</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.set_default_weight" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the default font weight. The initial value is ‘normal’.</p>
<ttclass="descname">update_fonts</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>filenames</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager.update_fonts" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Update the font dictionary with new font files.
Currently not implemented.</p>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="class">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties">
<emclass="property">class </em><ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">FontProperties</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>family=None</em>, <em>style=None</em>, <em>variant=None</em>, <em>weight=None</em>, <em>stretch=None</em>, <em>size=None</em>, <em>fname=None</em>, <em>_init=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>Alternatively, a font may be specified using an absolute path to a
.ttf file, by using the <em>fname</em> kwarg.</p>
<p>The preferred usage of font sizes is to use the relative values,
e.g., ‘large’, instead of absolute font sizes, e.g., 12. This
approach allows all text sizes to be made larger or smaller based
on the font manager’s default font size.</p>
<p>This class will also accept a <aclass="reference external" href="http://www.fontconfig.org/">fontconfig</a> pattern, if it is the only argument
provided. See the documentation on <aclass="reference external" href="http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html">fontconfig patterns</a>. This support
does not require fontconfig to be installed. We are merely
borrowing its pattern syntax for use here.</p>
<p>Note that matplotlib’s internal font manager and fontconfig use a
different algorithm to lookup fonts, so the results of the same pattern
may be different in matplotlib than in other applications that use
<ttclass="descname">copy</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.copy" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descname">get_family</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_family" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a list of font names that comprise the font family.</p>
<ttclass="descname">get_file</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_file" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the filename of the associated font.</p>
<ttclass="descname">get_fontconfig_pattern</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_fontconfig_pattern" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Get a fontconfig pattern suitable for looking up the font as
specified with fontconfig’s <ttclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">fc-match</span></tt> utility.</p>
<p>See the documentation on <aclass="reference external" href="http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html">fontconfig patterns</a>.</p>
<p>This support does not require fontconfig to be installed or
support for it to be enabled. We are merely borrowing its
<ttclass="descname">get_name</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_name" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the name of the font that best matches the font
<ttclass="descname">get_size</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_size" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descname">get_size_in_points</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_size_in_points" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descname">get_slant</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_slant" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the font style. Values are: ‘normal’, ‘italic’ or
<ttclass="descname">get_stretch</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_stretch" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the font stretch or width. Options are: ‘ultra-condensed’,
<ttclass="descname">get_style</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_style" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the font style. Values are: ‘normal’, ‘italic’ or
<ttclass="descname">get_variant</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_variant" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the font variant. Values are: ‘normal’ or
<ttclass="descname">get_weight</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.get_weight" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the font weight. Options are: A numeric value in the
range 0-1000 or one of ‘light’, ‘normal’, ‘regular’, ‘book’,
<ttclass="descname">set_family</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>family</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_family" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Change the font family. May be either an alias (generic name
is CSS parlance), such as: ‘serif’, ‘sans-serif’, ‘cursive’,
‘fantasy’, or ‘monospace’, a real font name or a list of real
font names. Real font names are not supported when
<ttclass="descname">set_file</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>file</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_file" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the filename of the fontfile to use. In this case, all
<ttclass="descname">set_fontconfig_pattern</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>pattern</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_fontconfig_pattern" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the properties by parsing a fontconfig <em>pattern</em>.</p>
<p>See the documentation on <aclass="reference external" href="http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html">fontconfig patterns</a>.</p>
<p>This support does not require fontconfig to be installed or
support for it to be enabled. We are merely borrowing its
<ttclass="descname">set_name</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>family</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_name" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Change the font family. May be either an alias (generic name
is CSS parlance), such as: ‘serif’, ‘sans-serif’, ‘cursive’,
‘fantasy’, or ‘monospace’, a real font name or a list of real
font names. Real font names are not supported when
<ttclass="descname">set_size</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>size</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_size" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the font size. Either an relative value of ‘xx-small’,
<ttclass="descname">set_slant</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>style</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_slant" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the font style. Values are: ‘normal’, ‘italic’ or
<ttclass="descname">set_stretch</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>stretch</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_stretch" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the font stretch or width. Options are: ‘ultra-condensed’,
<ttclass="descname">set_style</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>style</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_style" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the font style. Values are: ‘normal’, ‘italic’ or
<ttclass="descname">set_variant</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>variant</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_variant" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the font variant. Values are: ‘normal’ or ‘small-caps’.</p>
<ttclass="descname">set_weight</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>weight</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties.set_weight" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the font weight. May be either a numeric value in the
range 0-1000 or one of ‘ultralight’, ‘light’, ‘normal’,
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">OSXInstalledFonts</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>directories=None</em>, <em>fontext=u'ttf'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.OSXInstalledFonts" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Get list of font files on OS X - ignores font suffix by default.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="class">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.TempCache">
<emclass="property">class </em><ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">TempCache</tt><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.TempCache" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>A class to store temporary caches that are (a) not saved to disk
and (b) invalidated whenever certain font-related
rcParams—namely the family lookup lists—are changed or the
font cache is reloaded. This avoids the expensive linear search
through all fonts every time a font is looked up.</p>
<dlclass="method">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.TempCache.get">
<ttclass="descname">get</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>prop</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.TempCache.get" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descname">make_rcparams_key</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.TempCache.make_rcparams_key" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd></dd></dl>
<dlclass="method">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.TempCache.set">
<ttclass="descname">set</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>prop</em>, <em>value</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.TempCache.set" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd></dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.afmFontProperty">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">afmFontProperty</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>fontpath</em>, <em>font</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.afmFontProperty" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A function for populating a <ttclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">FontKey</span></tt> instance by
extracting information from the AFM font file.</p>
<p><em>font</em> is a class:<ttclass="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">AFM</span></tt> instance.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.createFontList">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">createFontList</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>fontfiles</em>, <em>fontext=u'ttf'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.createFontList" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A function to create a font lookup list. The default is to create
a list of TrueType fonts. An AFM font list can optionally be
created.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.findSystemFonts">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">findSystemFonts</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>fontpaths=None</em>, <em>fontext=u'ttf'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.findSystemFonts" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Search for fonts in the specified font paths. If no paths are
given, will use a standard set of system paths, as well as the
list of fonts tracked by fontconfig if fontconfig is installed and
available. A list of TrueType fonts are returned by default with
AFM fonts as an option.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.findfont">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">findfont</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>prop</em>, <em>**kw</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.findfont" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">get_fontconfig_fonts</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>fontext=u'ttf'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.get_fontconfig_fonts" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Grab a list of all the fonts that are being tracked by fontconfig
by making a system call to <ttclass="docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">fc-list</span></tt>. This is an easy way to
grab all of the fonts the user wants to be made available to
applications, without needing knowing where all of them reside.</p>
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">get_fontext_synonyms</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>fontext</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.get_fontext_synonyms" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a list of file extensions extensions that are synonyms for
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">is_opentype_cff_font</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.is_opentype_cff_font" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns True if the given font is a Postscript Compact Font Format
Font embedded in an OpenType wrapper. Used by the PostScript and
PDF backends that can not subset these fonts.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.list_fonts">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">list_fonts</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>directory</em>, <em>extensions</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.list_fonts" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a list of all fonts matching any of the extensions,
possibly upper-cased, found recursively under the directory.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.pickle_dump">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">pickle_dump</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>data</em>, <em>filename</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.pickle_dump" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Equivalent to pickle.dump(data, open(filename, ‘w’))
but closes the file to prevent filehandle leakage.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.pickle_load">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">pickle_load</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.pickle_load" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Equivalent to pickle.load(open(filename, ‘r’))
but closes the file to prevent filehandle leakage.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.ttfFontProperty">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">ttfFontProperty</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>font</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.ttfFontProperty" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A function for populating the <ttclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">FontKey</span></tt> by extracting
information from the TrueType font file.</p>
<p><em>font</em> is a <ttclass="xref py py-class docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">FT2Font</span></tt> instance.</p>
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">ttfdict_to_fnames</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>d</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.ttfdict_to_fnames" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>flatten a ttfdict to all the filenames it contains</p>
</dd></dl>
<dlclass="function">
<dtid="matplotlib.font_manager.weight_as_number">
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">weight_as_number</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>weight</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.weight_as_number" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the weight property as a numeric value. String values
are converted to their corresponding numeric value.</p>
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">win32FontDirectory</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.win32FontDirectory" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the user-specified font directory for Win32. This is
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.font_manager.</tt><ttclass="descname">win32InstalledFonts</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>directory=None</em>, <em>fontext=u'ttf'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.font_manager.win32InstalledFonts" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Search for fonts in the specified font directory, or use the
system directories if none given. A list of TrueType font
filenames are returned by default, or AFM fonts if <em>fontext</em> ==
<emclass="property">class </em><ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.</tt><ttclass="descname">FontconfigPatternParser</tt><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.FontconfigPatternParser" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>A simple pyparsing-based parser for fontconfig-style patterns.</p>
<p>See the <aclass="reference external" href="http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html">fontconfig pattern specification</a> for more
<ttclass="descname">parse</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>pattern</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.FontconfigPatternParser.parse" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Parse the given fontconfig <em>pattern</em> and return a dictionary
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.</tt><ttclass="descname">family_escape</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.family_escape" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.</tt><ttclass="descname">family_unescape</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.family_unescape" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.</tt><ttclass="descname">generate_fontconfig_pattern</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><em>d</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.generate_fontconfig_pattern" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Given a dictionary of key/value pairs, generates a fontconfig
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.</tt><ttclass="descname">value_escape</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.value_escape" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<ttclass="descclassname">matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.</tt><ttclass="descname">value_unescape</tt><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib.fontconfig_pattern.value_unescape" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>