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Axis labels and tick labels in 3D plots do not use fonts loaded from remote server

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Description

I have an HTML export of a 3D figure created using the Python API. For website embedding, I load a custom font from a server. For the example here, I'll just use a Google Font with a distinct style:

<link
  href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Audiowide"
  rel="stylesheet"
  type="text/css"
/>

I include a template in the plot layout so that this font is used for axis labels, tick labels, and et cetera. For 2D plots, this works as expected. For 3D plots, the axis and tick labels do not use the font at all.

I can't share the HTML export, but I recreated a minimal example from scratch to demonstrate this using Plotly.js:

plotly-3d-graph-font-issue.html.zip

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Research direction

Start by running the minimal Plotly.js HTML example attached to the issue and compare font handling between its 2D and 3D plots. Trace the 3D axis and tick-label rendering path; done means remotely loaded fonts are applied to those labels as they are in 2D plots.

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Tech stack
javascript
Domain
data-visualization
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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