How can one change the font for graphics to sans serif?

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/49446-how-can-i-change-the-fontface-of-a-text-within-a-plot

shows

set(gca, 'FontName', 'Times New Roman')

changes the font face of text in graphics. Then how can one change it to Sans Serif? I have tried

set(gca, 'FontName', 'Sans Serif')

But this did not help.

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

Use listfonts to determine what fonts are available on your system.

I suspect the issue here is one of spelling. In my system, it would be 'SansSerif'

set(gca, 'FontName', 'SansSerif')

[alpedhuez]

Thank you. I checked https://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/listtruetypefonts.html before posting but could not find San Serif.

[alpedhuez]

Yes it now says

get(gca,'fontname')
 ans= 'SansSerif'

But the figures font does not change. Changes to "Arial" also does not work. Change to 'cmr10' makes a change. Maybe some fonts are missing. What can be done?

[alpedhuez]

I restarted Matlab 2021a but still the same.

[Cris LaPierre]

Perhaps this answer can help?

[alpedhuez]

Thank you. Let me work on it.