Matplotlib: Times New Roman appears bold

Question

For some reason when using Times New Roman in my mpl plots it appears bold. Other fonts are OK.

Here is a minimal example, and the result (inside a Word doc

Answer 1

I know the question is very old, but it still is a problem, at least for me on my mac. I found a very easy solution to this problem, posted by azag0 on github

del matplotlib.font_manager.weight_dict['roman']
matplotlib.font_manager._rebuild()

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5574