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How can I style headers in a grid to be in Arial, 20pt?

g = Plot[x^2, {x, 0, 2}];
headers={"A", "B", "C"};
Grid[Prepend[{{g, g, g}}, headers]]

Grid of plots with unformatted headers

(I decided to post this question/answer because I keep stumbling onto this. I know the answer is somewhere in some question but always have a hard time finding the related question)

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With ItemStyle option of Grid.

Grid[Prepend[{{g, g, g}}, headers],
 ItemStyle -> {Automatic, {1 -> {FontFamily -> "Arial", FontSize -> 20}}}]

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This ItemStyle specification says use Automatic styling for the columns. Use Arial 20pt for row 1.

Hope this helps.

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Using the Style function with Slot (#), Function (&) and Map (/@)

headers = Style[#, {FontFamily -> "Arial", FontSize -> 20}] & /@ {"A", "B", "C"}
Grid[Prepend[{{g, g, g}}, headers]]

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  • $\begingroup$ I'm not entirely familiar with the special characters in Mathematica. I just discovered the Slot, could someone point me to the names of the other two? $\endgroup$
    – Delphine
    Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 16:15
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    $\begingroup$ /@ is simply Map. You can usually figure them out by entering ? /@ or something like FullForm[f /@ g]. $\endgroup$
    – Martin Ender
    Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 16:16
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you! Edited to add that info. $\endgroup$
    – Delphine
    Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 16:18
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    $\begingroup$ @MartinBüttner - but the one that drove me up a wall was that you can't use the question mark on any of these: {@, @@, @@@}. @Delphine - see this post: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18393/… $\endgroup$
    – Jason B.
    Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 16:25
  • $\begingroup$ @JasonB Oh, that's true. It seems that the only thing that still works on those is F1. $\endgroup$
    – Martin Ender
    Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 16:29

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