Add DejaVu as default font

Add DejaVu as default font

change other mentions to default font to DejaVu

modify rcsetup and rc template

add DejaVu to seaborn styles and examples

Author: zblz

examples/pylab_examples/logo.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ax = plt.subplot(111, axisbg='y')
 plt.plot(t, x)
 plt.text(0.5, 0.5, 'matplotlib', color='r',
-         fontsize=40, fontname=['Courier', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'],
+         fontsize=40, fontname=['Courier', 'DejaVu Sans Mono'],
          horizontalalignment='center',
          verticalalignment='center',
          transform=ax.transAxes,

examples/pylab_examples/text_handles.py

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ def f(t):
 xtext = plt.xlabel('time (s)')
 
 plt.setp(ttext, size='large', color='r', style='italic')
-plt.setp(xtext, size='medium', name=['Courier', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'],
+plt.setp(xtext, size='medium', name=['Courier', 'DejaVu Sans Mono'],
      weight='bold', color='g')
-plt.setp(ytext, size='medium', name=['Helvetica', 'Bitstream Vera Sans'],
+plt.setp(ytext, size='medium', name=['Helvetica', 'DejaVu Sans'],
      weight='light', color='b')
 plt.show()

lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py

@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ def __init__(self, size=None, weight='normal'):
 
         self.ttffiles = findSystemFonts(paths) + findSystemFonts()
         self.defaultFamily = {
-            'ttf': 'Bitstream Vera Sans',
+            'ttf': 'DejaVu Sans',
             'afm': 'Helvetica'}
         self.defaultFont = {}
 
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ def findfont(self, prop, fontext='ttf', directory=None,
         font is given a similarity score to the target font
         properties.  The first font with the highest score is
         returned.  If no matches below a certain threshold are found,
-        the default font (usually Vera Sans) is returned.
+        the default font (usually DejaVu Sans) is returned.
 
         `directory`, is specified, will only return fonts from the
         given directory (or subdirectory of that directory).
@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ def findfont(self, prop, fontext='ttf', directory=None,
         perform the O(n) nearest neighbor search.
 
         If `fallback_to_default` is True, will fallback to the default
-        font family (usually "Bitstream Vera Sans" or "Helvetica") if
+        font family (usually "DejaVu Sans" or "Helvetica") if
         the first lookup hard-fails.
 
         See the `W3C Cascading Style Sheet, Level 1