Cannot render Apple Color Emoji in plots #12830
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In both Jupyter Notebook and Terminal, I cannot display emojis using the Apple Color Emoji font.
If I attempt to set fontname='Apple Color Emoji' matplotlib won't find the font, and falls back to the default font DejaVu Sans, which renders the image below.
If I try to load the font using font_manager.FontProperties, it throws an error: RuntimeError: In FT2Font: Could not set the fontsize.
Code for reproduction
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
import numpy as np
prop = FontProperties(fname='/System/Library/Fonts/Apple Color Emoji.ttc')
freqs = [301, 96, 53, 81, 42]
labels = ['😊', '😱', '😂', '😄', '😛']
plt.figure(figsize=(12,8))
p1 = plt.bar(np.arange(len(labels)), freqs, 0.8, color="lightblue")
new_ylim = plt.ylim()[1]+30
plt.ylim(0, new_ylim)
# Make labels
for rect1, label in zip(p1, labels):
height = rect1.get_height()
plt.annotate(
label,
(rect1.get_x() + rect1.get_width()/2, height+5),
ha="center",
va="bottom",
#fontsize='30',
#fontname='Apple Color Emoji'
fontproperties = prop
)
plt.show()Matplotlib version
- Operating system: MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
- Matplotlib version: 2.2.3
- Matplotlib backend: MacOSX and module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline
- Python version: Python 3.7.0
- Jupyter version (if applicable): 5.6.0
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