# Fonts

Gnuplot does not provide any fonts of its own. It relies on external font handling, the details of which unfortunately vary from one terminal type to another. Brief documentation of font mechanisms that apply to more than one terminal type is given here. For information on font use by other individual terminals, see the documentation for that terminal.

Although it is possible to include non-alphabetic symbols by temporarily switching to a special font, e.g. the Adobe Symbol font, the preferred method is now to specify the unicode entry point for the desired symbols using their UTF-8 encoding. See encoding (p. ) and locale (p. ).

Subsections

- Cairo (pdfcairo, pngcairo, epscairo, wxt terminals)
- Gd (png, gif, jpeg, sixel terminals)
- Postscript (also encapsulated postscript *.eps)