Set Font Properties To Tick Labels With Matplot Lib

I'm trying to change the font of tick labels with matplotlib from the standard font to Times New Roman. I think this should be as easy as changing the font for the title and axis

Solution 1:

You can also set it before running the command with a parameter list if your running a script. Such as below taken from a script of mine:

fig_size = [fig_width, fig_height] 
tick_size = 9
fontlabel_size = 10.5
params = {
    'backend': 'wxAgg',
    'lines.markersize' : 2,
    'axes.labelsize': fontlabel_size,
    'text.fontsize': fontlabel_size,
    'legend.fontsize': fontlabel_size,
    'xtick.labelsize': tick_size,
    'ytick.labelsize': tick_size,
    'text.usetex': True,
    'figure.figsize': fig_size
}
plt.rcParams.update(params)

Or if you want to do it like you had it then run:

for label in ax.get_xticklabels() :
    label.set_fontproperties(ticks_font)

It is getting each label which has all the text properties that you can set for it.

Solution 2:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html

"Customizing matplotlib: matplotlib uses matplotlibrc configuration files to customize all kinds of properties, which we call rc settings or rc parameters. You can control the defaults of almost every property in matplotlib: figure size and dpi, line width, color and style, axes, axis and grid properties, text and font properties and so on." …