title: matplotlib font not found
body: <p>I'm trying to use the font "Heuristica" in my matplotlib plots, but it won't show up.</p>
  
  <p>I defined "Heuristica" on the first spot in the rcParameter font.serif --> no result</p>
  
  <p>I changed font.family to "Heuristica" and got the message </p>
  
  <pre><code>findfont: FontFamily not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>that got me thinking, because Heuristica is installed and I can access it from other software without problems. So I used the fontManager and did:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pylab as pl
  la = pl.matplotlib.font_manager.FontManager()
  lu = pl.matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties(family = 'Heuristica')
  la.findfont(lu)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and got: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Out[7]: 'C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\Heuristica-Regular.otf'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So obviously Heuristica can be found.
  I looked up the available ttf-Fonts (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18821795/how-can-i-get-list-of-font-familyor-name-of-font-in-matplotlib/18821968#18821968">How can i get list of font family(or Name of Font) in matplotlib</a>) but Heuristica is not in this list.</p>
  
  <p>I'd be glad about any help.</p>