For context: some scientific journals demand the fonts of our graphs to be Arial, and since I use google colab to plot absolutely everything, I need to find a way to change my font to Arial globally.

The problem is nothing seems to work.

First I tried just use plt.rcParams[‘font.family’], but it yields a “WARNING:matplotlib.font_manager:findfont: Font family ‘Arial’ not found.”

I also tried different solutions, like installing with !wget and using font_manager and stuff (for reference, like this) but nothing seems to work.

This seemed like a minor intervention but I already lost 1 week and every hope inside my heart.

This is driving me absolutely insane!!!!