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What's the name of this font used in this figure?


font name?

I want to use this font in matplotlib plotting, but I can not find out the name. Does anyone know?

This figure is got by IDL plotting on Mac OS (10.9) like:

filename = 'name.eps'
myDevice = !D.NAME
SET_PLOT,'ps'
DEVICE,DECOMPOSED=1,ENCAPSULATED=1,/COLOR,FILENAME=filename

......

DEVICE, /CLOSE
SET_PLOT, myDevice

Solution

  • I'm not a font expert, but this looks a lot to me like the font that was used with pen plotters. Looking around for "pen plotter font", turns up "Hershey Vector Font", which looks quite close.

    enter image description here