Fix title font property precedence by samiat4911 · Pull Request #31877 · matplotlib/matplotlib

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PR summary

Explicit title font properties now take precedence over complete font or fontproperties values regardless of keyword argument order.

Previously, these calls produced different font sizes:

ax.set_title("Title", font="DejaVu Sans", fontsize=20)
ax.set_title("Title", fontsize=20, font="DejaVu Sans")

Axes.set_title() now applies complete font properties first, followed by individual properties such as fontsize. Regression tests cover both keyword orders using font-family strings and FontProperties objects.

closes #27608

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