Avoiding Type 3 Fonts in matplotlib Plots

Remove fonts that may not be supported by some publishers

Last updated on Apr 12, 2020 1 min read

So you’ve generated your figure/PDF with matplotlib and your conference/journal publishers tell you that you have unsupported font types. Chances are, based on my experience with ACM, you have some Type 3 fonts. Jamie Oak wrote this blog post on how to avoid Type 3 PostScript fonts in the pdf generated by matplotlib. Just add a couple lines to the top of your scripts and voilà!

Below is one of the figures that were flagged.

Kevin A. Brown, Ph.D.

Argonne Scholar

I am a supercomputing researcher focusing on the evaluating and optimizing network and parallel I/O performance.