# Does CairoMakie support mixed Latin and foreign characters?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-cairomakie-support-mixed-latin-and-foreign-characters/139959>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [October 12, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-cairomakie-support-mixed-latin-and-foreign-characters/139959 "2026-10-12T00:56:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![zchenytt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/zchenytt/32/223795_2.png) [@zchenytt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zchenytt)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-cairomakie-support-mixed-latin-and-foreign-characters/139959/1 "2026-10-12T00:56:16Z")

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Hello,

I’m currently writing my PhD thesis (in Chinese).  
According to what they said, labels in figures should be in “Chinese in SimSun + English in Times New Roman” style.  
But I currently can only make it to be “Both Chinese and English in SimSun”:

```julia
using CairoMakie
Makie.update_theme!(
    fonts = (
        regular = "SimSun",
        bold = "SimSun",
        italic = "Times New Roman",
        bold_italic = "Times New Roman Bold"
    )
);

f = Figure(size=(200,280), figure_padding = 0.9);
axw = Axis(f[1, 1], ylabel="风电功率/百MW", xticksvisible=false, xticklabelsvisible=false, xgridvisible = false,ygridvisible = false)
axe = Axis(f[2, 1], ylabel="储电量/百MWh", xlabel="时段", xticks=-1:1:3, xgridvisible = false,ygridvisible = false)
f

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/3/934bf41bdbca7488e81315a83d7c0e31fbdc2a61.png)

So as you can see, the “MW” was printed in SimSun style. I wonder if there’s a way to print it in Times New Roman? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![aryavorskiy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aryavorskiy/32/43466_2.png) [@aryavorskiy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aryavorskiy)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-cairomakie-support-mixed-latin-and-foreign-characters/139959/2 "2026-10-12T01:14:18Z")

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Hi!

Makie supports [rich text](https://docs.makie.org/dev/reference/plots/text#Rich-text). Something like `ylabel=rich("风电功率/百", rich("MW", font="Times New Roman"))` should do the trick.