# How to specify text in Plots? (font family, font size, etc.)

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-specify-text-in-plots-font-family-font-size-etc/60311 "2021-04-30T13:34:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-specify-text-in-plots-font-family-font-size-etc/60311/4 "2021-05-03T07:44:29Z")

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For the axes labels use `guidefontsize` for all, and `xguidefontsize`, `yguidefontsize` for the individual axes. More [here](https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/attributes_axis/).

_NB: the feature of prepending x, y, z, to many of Plots.jl keywords does not seem to be clearly documented_

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