diff --git a/src/arg_desc.jl b/src/arg_desc.jl
index a8decf79..67411988 100644
--- a/src/arg_desc.jl
+++ b/src/arg_desc.jl
@@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ const _arg_desc = KW(
 :legendfont                  => "Font. Font of legend items.",
 :legendtitlefont             => "Font. Font of the legend title.",
 :annotations                 => "(x,y,text) tuple(s).  Can be a single tuple or a list of them.  Text can be String or PlotText (created with `text(args...)`)  Add one-off text annotations at the x,y coordinates.",
+:annotationfontfamily        => "String or Symbol. Font family of annotations.",
+:annotationfontsize          => "Integer. Font pointsize of annotations.",
+:annotationhalign            => "Symbol. horizontal alignment of annotations, :hcenter, :left, :right or :center.",
+:annotationvalign            => "Symbol. Vertical alignment of annotations, :vcenter, :top, :bottom or :center.",
+:annotationrotation          => "Float. Rotation of annotations in degrees.",
+:annotationcolor             => "Colorant or :match. Color of annotations.",
 :projection                  => "Symbol or String.  '3d' or 'polar'",
 :aspect_ratio                => "Symbol (:equal or :none) or Number. Plot area is resized so that 1 y-unit is the same size as `aspect_ratio` x-units. With `:none`, images inherit aspect ratio of the plot area.",
 :margin                      => "Measure (multiply by `mm`, `px`, etc). Base for individual margins... not directly used.  Specifies the extra padding around subplots.",
diff --git a/src/args.jl b/src/args.jl
index 12e75cdd..d00cf8b9 100644
--- a/src/args.jl
+++ b/src/args.jl
@@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ const _subplot_defaults = KW(
     :legendtitlefontrotation    => 0.0,
     :legendtitlefontcolor       => :match,
     :annotations                => [],                # annotation tuples... list of (x,y,annotation)
+    :annotationfontfamily       => :match,
+    :annotationfontsize         => 14,
+    :annotationhalign           => :hcenter,
+    :annotationvalign           => :vcenter,
+    :annotationrotation         => 0.0,
+    :annotationcolor            => :match,
     :projection                 => :none,             # can also be :polar or :3d
     :aspect_ratio               => :auto,             # choose from :none or :equal
     :margin                     => 1mm,
@@ -519,6 +525,7 @@ const _initial_axis_defaults = deepcopy(_axis_defaults)
 const _initial_fontsizes = Dict(:titlefontsize  => _subplot_defaults[:titlefontsize],
                                 :legendfontsize => _subplot_defaults[:legendfontsize],
                                 :legendtitlefontsize => _subplot_defaults[:legendtitlefontsize],
+                                :annotationfontsize => _subplot_defaults[:annotationfontsize],
                                 :tickfontsize   => _axis_defaults[:tickfontsize],
                                 :guidefontsize  => _axis_defaults[:guidefontsize])
 
@@ -1359,6 +1366,8 @@ const _match_map = KW(
     :plot_titlefontcolor      => :foreground_color,
     :tickfontcolor            => :foreground_color_text,
     :guidefontcolor           => :foreground_color_guide,
+    :annotationfontfamily     => :fontfamily_subplot,
+    :annotationcolor          => :foreground_color_subplot,
 )
 
 # these can match values from the parent container (axis --> subplot --> plot)
diff --git a/src/components.jl b/src/components.jl
index d7a6c98b..34cafdc4 100644
--- a/src/components.jl
+++ b/src/components.jl
@@ -575,11 +575,21 @@ annotations(sa::SeriesAnnotations) = sa
 
 # Expand arrays of coordinates, positions and labels into induvidual annotations
 # and make sure labels are of type PlotText
-function process_annotation(sp::Subplot, xs, ys, labs, font = font())
+function process_annotation(sp::Subplot, xs, ys, labs, font = nothing)
     anns = []
     labs = makevec(labs)
     xlength = length(methods(length, (typeof(xs),))) == 0 ? 1 : length(xs)
     ylength = length(methods(length, (typeof(ys),))) == 0 ? 1 : length(ys)
+    if isnothing(font)
+        font = Plots.font(;
+                    family=sp[:annotationfontfamily],
+                    pointsize=sp[:annotationfontsize],
+                    halign=sp[:annotationhalign],
+                    valign=sp[:annotationvalign],
+                    rotation=sp[:annotationrotation],
+                    color=sp[:annotationcolor],
+                         )
+    end
     for i in 1:max(xlength, ylength, length(labs))
       x, y, lab = _cycle(xs, i), _cycle(ys, i), _cycle(labs, i)
         x = typeof(x) <: TimeType ? Dates.value(x) : x
@@ -588,14 +598,24 @@ function process_annotation(sp::Subplot, xs, ys, labs, font = font())
             alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
             push!(anns, (x, y, text(string("(", alphabet[sp[:subplot_index]], ")"), font)))
         else
-            push!(anns, (x, y, isa(lab, PlotText) ? lab : isa(lab, Tuple) ? text(lab...) : text(lab, font)))
+            push!(anns, (x, y, isa(lab, PlotText) ? lab : isa(lab, Tuple) ? text(lab[1], font, lab[2:end]...) : text(lab, font)))
         end
     end
     anns
 end
-function process_annotation(sp::Subplot, positions::Union{AVec{Symbol},Symbol}, labs, font = font())
+function process_annotation(sp::Subplot, positions::Union{AVec{Symbol},Symbol}, labs, font = nothing)
     anns = []
     positions, labs = makevec(positions), makevec(labs)
+    if isnothing(font)
+        font = Plots.font(;
+                          family=sp[:annotationfontfamily],
+                          pointsize=sp[:annotationfontsize],
+                          halign=sp[:annotationhalign],
+                          valign=sp[:annotationvalign],
+                          rotation=sp[:annotationrotation],
+                          color=sp[:annotationcolor],
+                         )
+    end
     for i in 1:max(length(positions), length(labs))
         pos, lab = _cycle(positions, i), _cycle(labs, i)
         pos = get(_positionAliases, pos, pos)
@@ -603,7 +623,7 @@ function process_annotation(sp::Subplot, positions::Union{AVec{Symbol},Symbol},
             alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
             push!(anns, (pos, text(string("(", alphabet[sp[:subplot_index]], ")"), font)))
         else
-            push!(anns, (pos, isa(lab, PlotText) ? lab : isa(lab, Tuple) ? text(lab...) : text(lab, font)))
+            push!(anns, (pos, isa(lab, PlotText) ? lab : isa(lab, Tuple) ? text(lab[1], font, lab[2:end]...) : text(lab, font)))
         end
     end
     anns