What font does MATLAB use?

What font does MATLAB use?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

There is no specific default font for MATLAB. MATLAB chooses a font to display based on your Java settings.

In order to figure out what font is being used on your machine, please read the following reference:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/fontconfig.html#loading

This will point you towards a specific Java configuration file.  Within this file you should see a line starting with

monospaced.plain.alphabetic=

followed by the name of a font.  This is the font that MATLAB will use.

[Walter Roberson]

place_to_look = fullfile(matlabroot, 'sys', 'java', '**', 'fontconfig.properties.src');
dinfo = dir(place_to_look);
if isempty(dinfo)
   fprintf('Sorry, I am not smart enough to figure it out for your system\n');
else
    fprintf('%s\n', fullfile(dinfo(1).folder, dinfo(1).name));
end

/MATLAB/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties.src

[Adam Danz]

To check the font Matlab is using in r2018a or later, open preferences from the home tab and navigate to MATLAB > Fonts.

See the documentation for more info.