Provide a 'cursive' font present in Windows' default font set.

anntzer · anntzer · commit 538eed754d5c · 2020-10-01T12:37:19.000+02:00
See changelog. Admittedly the CSS example page is inconsistent with https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#generic-font-families which lists Comic Sans as *fantasy*, not *cursive*, but none of the other cursive fonts listed here is readily available. fontconfig also defaults to listing Comic Sans as cursive. The main intent is to make `text_labels_and_annotations/fonts_demo.py` runnable with no warnings if MS core fonts are installed (freely available and packaged on Linux e.g. as https://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-mscorefonts-installer); in any case if someone really wants a cursive or fantasy font they'll likely have to pass the actual font family name anyways as there's too much variation in what "cursive" or "fantasy" means... (The original list of fonts comes from 41f1c49 but is not explained.)
diff --git a/doc/api/next_api_changes/behavior/18623-AL.rst b/doc/api/next_api_changes/behavior/18623-AL.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Changed cursive and fantasy font definitions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The Comic Sans and Comic Neue fonts were moved from the default :rc:`font.fantasy`
+list to the default :rc:`font.cursive` setting, in accordance with the CSS
+font families example_ and in order to provide a cursive font present in
+Microsoft's Core Fonts set.
+
+.. _example: https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/fonts.en.html
diff --git a/matplotlibrc.template b/matplotlibrc.template
@@ -258,8 +258,8 @@
 
 #font.serif:      DejaVu Serif, Bitstream Vera Serif, Computer Modern Roman, New Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, Bookman, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Times New Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif
 #font.sans-serif: DejaVu Sans, Bitstream Vera Sans, Computer Modern Sans Serif, Lucida Grande, Verdana, Geneva, Lucid, Arial, Helvetica, Avant Garde, sans-serif
-#font.cursive:    Apple Chancery, Textile, Zapf Chancery, Sand, Script MT, Felipa, cursive
-#font.fantasy:    Comic Neue, Comic Sans MS, Chicago, Charcoal, Impact, Western, Humor Sans, xkcd, fantasy
+#font.cursive:    Apple Chancery, Textile, Zapf Chancery, Sand, Script MT, Felipa, Comic Neue, Comic Sans MS, cursive
+#font.fantasy:    Chicago, Charcoal, Impact, Western, Humor Sans, xkcd, fantasy
 #font.monospace:  DejaVu Sans Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Computer Modern Typewriter, Andale Mono, Nimbus Mono L, Courier New, Courier, Fixed, Terminal, monospace
 
 
