MATLAB 2025a new fonts. How do I use them.

While poking around in the Preferences:Appearance:Fonts, I found some fonts I hadn't seen in MATLAB before. For example the font "A.C.M.E. Secret Agent". What are these? Can I used them? How do I use them? Where are they?

[Walter Roberson]

Datapoint: My MacOS Intel system running MacOS 15.6, does not have A.C.M.E. Secret Agent .

It does have random fonts such as "Bodoni Ornaments" and "Galvji" and "Shree Devanagari 714", so I figure that most of those are just fonts that are supported by my system, rather than fonts specific to MATLAB.

[Alan]

I am running the same system and "A.C.M.E. Secret Agent" is nowhere on my system.

Why does it appear in MATLAB's list of available fonts then?

[Walter Roberson]

Correction: I was checking R2025b.

I went back and checked R2025a, and I do see A.C.M.E. Secret Agent. I also see a series of other fonts that do not appear in the R2025b list, and some of the R2025b entries are not present in R2025a.

[John D'Errico]

You are not allowed to use the secret agent font unless you have 00x clearance.

[dpb]

See https://www.1001fonts.com/users/blambot/ and https://blambot.com/pages/about

Looks like somebody at Mathworks was playing around and somehow got them into a build...

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I have Windows 11 and am running r2024b. In my MATLAB Fonts drop down I see tons of fonts. They seem to be many, but not all of the system fonts. For example I dowloaded and installed some Halloween fonts and they show up automatically in Photoshop but not in MATLAB. I think they were .OTF style fonts, not the older .TTF fonts. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Anyway not sure why you're asking us if you can use them. Just select them, apply them, and see if anything changes in the appearance.

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

I do not have that font in Ubuntu 24.04, MATLAB R2025b.

You can select whatever font you like in the various MATLAB settings (such as Desktop code font), however that might not be the best option.

For text objects (text, title, xlabel, etc.), use

FontName="A.C.M.E. Secret Agent"

as a name-value pair argument, and see what the result is.

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[Walter Roberson]

ACME was present in R2025a but not R2025b.

[dpb]

From the provenance of their origination and purpose (links I posted earlier), it appears somebody at Mathworks made a mistake in creating a build...

[Star Strider]

Noted.

My intent is to address the '... how to use them' part of the question.

I tested this with fonts I have available, and it works. It should similarly work with any installed font (except the 'Symbol' fonts that are no longer supported, suggesting'Tex' or 'LaTeX' instead).