Customize Your Fonts
This lesson is called Customize Your Fonts, part of the R in 3 Months (Fall 2025) course. This lesson is called Customize Your Fonts, part of the R in 3 Months (Fall 2025) course.
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# Load Packages -----------------------------------------------------------
library(tidyverse)
library(fs)
library(scales)
library(ggrepel)
library(ggtext)
# Create Directory --------------------------------------------------------
dir_create("data")
# Download Data -----------------------------------------------------------
# download.file("https://github.com/rfortherestofus/going-deeper-v2/raw/main/data/third_grade_math_proficiency.rds",
# mode = "wb",
# destfile = "data/third_grade_math_proficiency.rds")
# Import Data -------------------------------------------------------------
third_grade_math_proficiency <-
read_rds("data/third_grade_math_proficiency.rds") |>
select(academic_year, school, school_id, district, proficiency_level, number_of_students) |>
mutate(is_proficient = case_when(
proficiency_level >= 3 ~ TRUE,
.default = FALSE
)) |>
group_by(academic_year, school, district, school_id, is_proficient) |>
summarize(number_of_students = sum(number_of_students, na.rm = TRUE)) |>
ungroup() |>
group_by(academic_year, school, district, school_id) |>
mutate(percent_proficient = number_of_students / sum(number_of_students, na.rm = TRUE)) |>
ungroup() |>
filter(is_proficient == TRUE) |>
select(academic_year, school, district, percent_proficient) |>
rename(year = academic_year) |>
mutate(percent_proficient = case_when(
is.nan(percent_proficient) ~ NA,
.default = percent_proficient
)) |>
mutate(percent_proficient_formatted = percent(percent_proficient,
accuracy = 1))
# Theme -------------------------------------------------------------------
theme_dk <- function() {
theme_minimal() +
theme(axis.title = element_blank(),
plot.title = element_markdown(family = "IBM Plex Mono"),
plot.title.position = "plot",
panel.grid = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_text(color = "grey60",
family = "IBM Plex Mono",
size = 10),
legend.position = "none")
}
# Plot --------------------------------------------------------------------
top_growth_school <-
third_grade_math_proficiency |>
filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
group_by(school) |>
mutate(growth_from_previous_year = percent_proficient - lag(percent_proficient)) |>
ungroup() |>
drop_na(growth_from_previous_year) |>
slice_max(order_by = growth_from_previous_year,
n = 1) |>
pull(school)
third_grade_math_proficiency |>
filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
mutate(highlight_school = case_when(
school == top_growth_school ~ "Y",
.default = "N"
)) |>
mutate(percent_proficient_formatted = case_when(
highlight_school == "Y" & year == "2021-2022" ~ str_glue("{percent_proficient_formatted} of students
were proficient
in {year}"),
highlight_school == "Y" & year == "2018-2019" ~ percent_proficient_formatted,
.default = NA
)) |>
mutate(school = fct_relevel(school, top_growth_school, after = Inf)) |>
ggplot(aes(x = year,
y = percent_proficient,
group = school,
color = highlight_school,
label = percent_proficient_formatted)) +
geom_line() +
geom_text_repel(hjust = 0,
lineheight = 0.9,
family = "IBM Plex Mono",
direction = "x") +
scale_color_manual(values = c(
"N" = "grey90",
"Y" = "orange"
)) +
scale_y_continuous(labels = percent_format()) +
scale_x_discrete(expand = expansion(add = c(0.05, 0.5))) +
annotate(geom = "text",
x = 2.02,
y = 0.6,
hjust = 0,
lineheight = 0.9,
family = "IBM Plex Mono",
color = "grey70",
label = str_glue("Each grey line
represents one school")) +
labs(title = str_glue("<b style='color: orange;'>{top_growth_school}</b> showed large growth in math proficiency over the last two years")) +
theme_dk()
Your Turn
Set you system up to use custom fonts using the
raggandsystemfontspackages.Apply a custom font to your plot.
Save your plot using
ggsave()and add your plot to a Quarto document to make sure that it renders correctly there.
If you want to use the fonts I do, you can download them:
Learn More
Cara Thompson has a great article on getting fonts to work in R.
If you want to go really deep on custom fonts in R, check out this article by June Choe.
Have any questions? Put them below and we will help you out!
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