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Making it easy to use various types of fonts ('TrueType', 'OpenType', Type 1, web fonts, etc.) in R graphs, and supporting most output formats of R graphics including PNG, PDF and SVG. Text glyphs will be converted into polygons or raster images, hence after the plot has been created, it no longer relies on the font files. No external software such as 'Ghostscript' is needed to use this package.

Installation

To install this package, run one of the following:

Conda
$conda install conda-forge::r-showtext

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Summary

Making it easy to use various types of fonts ('TrueType', 'OpenType', Type 1, web fonts, etc.) in R graphs, and supporting most output formats of R graphics including PNG, PDF and SVG. Text glyphs will be converted into polygons or raster images, hence after the plot has been created, it no longer relies on the font files. No external software such as 'Ghostscript' is needed to use this package.

Last Updated

Mar 29, 2026 at 18:33

License

Apache-2.0

Supported Platforms

macOS-64
linux-aarch64
linux-64
macOS-arm64
linux-ppc64le
win-64