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

Using python 3.7 on Windows 10, Jupyter Notebook, no Anaconda installed.

Simply adjusted the font sequence C:\Windows\Fonts\Times New Roman as suggested above doesn't work here.

Under C:\User\Name\.matplolib, find a JSON File (text file) named fontlist-v300.

Delete

{
      "fname": "C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\timesbd.ttf",
      "name": "Times New Roman",
      "style": "normal",
      "variant": "normal",
      "weight": "roman",
      "stretch": "normal",
      "size": "scalable",
      "__class__": "FontEntry"
}

in the text file works for me.

Not a good way, though.