Problem using theme font in ggplot

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Hi. I am trying to create a chart in ggplot and using the hrbrthemes package. The latter package includes a number of fonts and I want to use one of them, Goldman Sans. In the script I include them in

geom_text( data = xdf, aes(party, votes + 0.015, label = scales::percent(votes, 0.1)), position = position_nudge(0.125), family = font_gs, size = 3, color = "black", fontface = "bold" )

but the result is a graph with only bars and no text and the console warns me that

Warning messages: 1: In grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)) : no font could be found for family "Goldman Sans Condensed"

and so on up to fifty warnings. But the font is installed at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/library/hrbrthemes/fonts/goldman-sans

What could be the problem?

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I'm not sure that downloading R packages that nominally give you access to a font will actually make the font available on your system. You may need to download and install the font independently, and then try running your code again.

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The issue is likely that R and ggplot2 do not automatically register the fonts from hrbrthemes. Try explicitly registering them using the extrafont or systemfonts package.

  1. Load the fonts:

    library(hrbrthemes)
hrbrthemes::import_roboto_condensed()  # Also imports Goldman Sans

  2. If the issue persists, try registering the fonts manually:

    library(systemfonts)
register_font(name = "Goldman Sans", plain = "/path/to/Goldman-Sans-Regular.ttf")

  3. Ensure your R session recognizes the font:

    systemfonts::match_font("Goldman Sans")

If none of this works, try using showtext for better font handling.