Bug report

Bug summary

Setting the font family through rcParams doesn't impact tick labels if the axis is log-scaled. The size of the font can be changed, but not the family (e.g. using the serif font).

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import rcParams

rcParams['font.family'] = 'serif'
rcParams['font.size'] = 16

x = [0, 1, 2]
y = [1, 100, 10000]

plt.plot(x, y)
plt.yscale('log')
plt.savefig('logscaled.png')
plt.clf()

plt.plot(x, y)
plt.savefig('not-logscaled.png')

Actual outcome

As seen in this screenshot, the linear-scaled y-axis on the left has a serif font while the log-scaled y-axis on the right still has the default sans-serif font. In both cases the font size is set appropriately to 16. It's just the font family that doesn't change. (Pardon the 'shadow' between the two images, that's my Mac, not matplotlib).

Expected outcome

The code should produce tick labels on log-scaled axes with the specified font family.

Matplotlib version

• Mac OS X 10.10.5
• python 3.5, installed from a Mac installer pkg
• matplotlib 2.0.0 - upgraded February 3 with python3 -m pip install --upgrade matplotlib