Using custom OTF fonts in ggplot2

Question

I need to use a custom font, namely \"Archer\", with ggplot2 in R. Archer is an otf typeface installed on my system (Mac OSX Yosemite).

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Answer 1

You can try the showtext package, which directly works on OTF fonts.

library(showtext)
font.add("Archer", "Archer.otf")
showtext.auto()
library(ggplot2)
qplot(1:10)+theme(text=element_text(family="Archer"))

Please replace "Archer.otf" by the real filename of your Archer font in the system.

Using showtext does not require embedding the fonts.