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 solved this problem by deleting the timesbd.tff in matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts. And I'm not sure whether timesbi.tff and timesi.tff need to be deleted, but I did it.