changing the font of the xthicklabels from a stylesheet in matplotlib -

i want use non-standard font labels on axes of matplotlib graph. cannot assume users have installed font, providing ttf file.

i have working doing following:

fname = '/bla/bla/myfont.ttf'     ticks_font = matplotlib.font_manager.fontproperties(fname = fontpath, style='normal', size=12, weight='normal', stretch='normal') label in ax.get_xticklabels() :     label.set_fontproperties(ticks_font) 

however, have many graphs different styles, want move layout stylesheets. i've tried do:

 font.serif : '/bla/bla/myfont.ttf'  font.family :'serif' 

but doesn't seem work.