Matplotlib cannot find basic fonts
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. I am generally executing python code through an ipython notebook. If I do a basic command such as: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.scatter([1,5], [1,5]) I get an error message: path_to_miniconda/miniconda3/envs/conda34/lib/python3.4/site- packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1297: UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['sans-serif'] not found. Falling back to DejaVu Sans (prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext])) I