Choosing the correct fonts

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from tueplots import figsizes, fonts

# Increase the resolution of all the plots below
plt.rcParams.update({"figure.dpi": 150})

# "Better" figure size to display the font-changes
plt.rcParams.update(figsizes.icml2022_half())

Fonts in tueplots follow the same interface as the other settings.

There are some pre-defined font recipes for a few journals, and they return dictionaries that are compatible with matplotlib.pyplot.rcParams.update().

fonts.neurips2021()

{'text.usetex': False,
 'font.serif': ['Times New Roman', 'Times', 'TeX Gyre Termes', 'Nimbus Roman'],
 'font.sans-serif': ['Helvetica',
  'Helvetica Neue',
  'TeX Gyre Heros',
  'Nimbus Sans',
  'Nimbus Sans L'],
 'font.family': 'serif',
 'mathtext.fontset': 'cm'}

Compare the following default font to some of the alternatives that we provide:

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
ax.set_title("Title")
ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int f(x) dx$")
ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.jmlr2001_tex(family="serif")):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")
    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.jmlr2001_tex(family="sans-serif")):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")
    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.neurips2021_tex(family="sans-serif")):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")
    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.neurips2021(family="sans-serif")):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")
    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.icml2022()):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")

    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.icml2022_tex(family="sans-serif")):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")
    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.icml2022_tex(family="serif")):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")
    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()

plt.rcParams.update(fonts.aistats2022_tex(family="serif"))
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
ax.set_title("Title")
ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
plt.show()

with plt.rc_context(fonts.aistats2022_tex(family="sans-serif")):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0])
    ax.set_title("Title")
    ax.set_xlabel(r"xlabel $\int_a^b f(x) dx$")
    ax.set_ylabel(r"ylabel $x \sim \mathcal{N}(x)$")
    plt.show()