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Changing the default font size in Matplotlib
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Changing all font-sizes
To change the default font-size, use the first line of code:
plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 20})plt.plot([1,2])plt.title("My Graph")plt.show()
The output is as follows:
Changing font-size case by case
Instead of changing all font-sizes, you could also change the font-size case by case, using the font_size parameter:
plt.plot([1,2])plt.title("My Graph", fontsize=30)plt.show()
This gives you:
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