Add a bold female symbol to ggplot2 using annotate

Question

I\'m trying to use the female symbol, ♀ in my plot. It\'s pretty faint (well, it looks faint on my actual graph), so I was hoping to make it bold face.

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Answer 1

@Axeman's comment helped me find an answer - I didn't realize you could load in other packages to get more fonts for ggplot2. Thanks! I used the following code:

install.packages("extrafont")
library(extrafont)
font_import() # Prepare for this to take several minutes
loadfonts(device = "win")

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_point() +
   theme_bw() +
   annotate("text", x = 0.5, y = 0.7, label = "2016 ♀", 
   size = 7, hjust = 0, colour = "grey50", family = "Calibri", fontface = "bold")