Plots export to svg with text converted to shape

I found the answer in some Issue which skipped my first 100 search attempts…
https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/2596#issuecomment-616054537

You should explicitly include a font that is known to GR() like this:

import Plots
using Plots

plot(exp.(0:0.01:4), fontfamily="helvetica"))
savefig("test.svg")

and voila, text is text in your svg.

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