https://fromkk.com/tags/matplotlib/Recent content in Matplotlib on KK's Blog (fromkk)Hugoenbebound@gmail.com (KK)bebound@gmail.com (KK)Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:44:05 +0800https://fromkk.com/posts/using-chinese-characters-in-matplotlib/Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:53:00 +0800bebound@gmail.com (KK)https://fromkk.com/posts/using-chinese-characters-in-matplotlib/<p>After searching from Google, here is easiest solution. This should also works on other languages:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-python" data-lang="python"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">import</span> matplotlib.pyplot <span style="color:#66d9ef">as</span> plt </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">%</span>matplotlib inline </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">%</span>config InlineBackend<span style="color:#f92672">.</span>figure_format <span style="color:#f92672">=</span> <span style="color:#e6db74">&#39;retina&#39;</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">import</span> matplotlib.font_manager <span style="color:#66d9ef">as</span> fm </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>f <span style="color:#f92672">=</span> <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;/System/Library/Fonts/PingFang.ttc&#34;</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>prop <span style="color:#f92672">=</span> fm<span style="color:#f92672">.</span>FontProperties(fname<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>f) </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>plt<span style="color:#f92672">.</span>title(<span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;你好&#34;</span>,fontproperties<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>prop) </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>plt<span style="color:#f92672">.</span>show() </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Output:</p> <figure class="image-size-s"><img src="https://fromkk.com/images/matplot_chinese.png"> </figure>