#Agency fb bold font code#
Here is an example of the code to import and then review the fonts: library(extrafont)įonttable() # very useful table listing the family name, font name etc Luckily the package comes with a function that does this for you without much fuss – it takes a couple of minutes, depending on how many fonts you have. In addition, you will need to import the fonts you need. Import fonts (and some quick data setup)įor the extrafont package you'll need to make sure that you have GhostScript on your system in order to embed the fonts (you will also need to tell R where it's located – see below). There is also a relatively new package called showtext that I got to work for me, but I didn't find that it offered any functionality beyond extrafont (and it crashed my R session twice) so I won't cover that package. I'm going to show an example using the package extrafont. Luckily there is support for additional fonts particularly if you’re creating PDFs or postscript files.
#Agency fb bold font pdf#
Nevertheless we often need to prepare Postscript and PDF plots for scientific papers and reports and the standard fonts often don’t cut it.
My understanding is that support for 'non-standard' fonts is extremely difficult given the large number of computing setups, graphics devices etc. You can spend an incredible amount of time fine-tuning a ggplot2 graphic, fiddling with the length of the tick marks, getting the legend just right but then the Helvetica text detracts from the beauty of what you've created. Although R has vast graphical functionality I've lamented the lack of support for additional fonts.
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