Matplotlib cannot find basic fonts

Question

I am using matplotlib version 2.0.0 on Python 3 in a miniconda virtual environment. I am working on a unix scientific computing cluster where I don\'t have root privileges.

Answer 1

There is a conda package for it[1]. So, you don't really need sudo to fix this!

conda install -c conda-forge -y mscorefonts

restart jupyter and/or force rebuild matplotlib font cache

import matplotlib
matplotlib.font_manager._rebuild()

[1] - https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/mscorefonts