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The MWE below shows that the solution at How can I change the font family in pgfplots? does not cover all the cases. The digits in the plot itself and the subscript in math mode in the title need further attention.

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\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}

%deal with warning message in log
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.8}

\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage[eulergreek]{sansmath}
\pgfplotsset{
  tick label style = {font=\sansmath\sffamily},
  every axis label = {font=\sansmath\sffamily},
  legend style = {font=\sansmath\sffamily},
  label style = {font=\sansmath\sffamily}
}

\pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{
name, footprint
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}\carbonfootprints

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[font=\sffamily]

\begin{axis}[ 
      xbar, xmin=0,
      tick style={draw=none},
      width=8cm, height=3cm, 
      title={Estimated carbon footprint, g CO${}_2$}, 
      enlarge y limits=0.3,
      ytick=data,
      yticklabel style={align=right},
      yticklabels={
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        1. Movie download
      },
      nodes near coords,
      nodes near coords align={horizontal}, 
    ]
    \addplot [fill=red] table [x=footprint, y expr=\coordindex] 
             {\carbonfootprints};
\end{axis} 
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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If you add font=\sffamily\sansmath to the tikzpicture options (or the axis options), all text will be in sans serif, without you having to find all relevant styles:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}

%deal with warning message in log
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.8}

\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage[eulergreek]{sansmath}

\pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{
name, footprint
Google search,  0.2
Movie download, 20
}\carbonfootprints

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[font=\sffamily\sansmath]

\begin{axis}[ 
      xbar, xmin=0,
      tick style={draw=none},
      width=8cm, height=3cm, 
      title={Estimated carbon footprint, g CO${}_2$}, 
      enlarge y limits=0.3,
      ytick=data,
      yticklabel style={align=right},
      yticklabels={
        2. Google search, 
        1. Movie download
      },
      nodes near coords,
      nodes near coords align={horizontal}
    ]
    \addplot [fill=red] table [x=footprint, y expr=\coordindex] 
             {\carbonfootprints};
\end{axis} 
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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    You solved a problem of mine: Making Tikz Graphics with serif fonts for the report, and making them with sans-serif fonts as standalone image for presentations. Including the sansmath and \tikzset{every picture/.style={font=\sffamily\sansmath}} into the preamble of the standalone tex file did the trick without the need of changing the original tikz code for the image.
    – Dohn Joe
    Jan 25, 2016 at 8:45
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    Same here. Including [font=\sffamily\sansmath] in the tikzpicture-options made the\pgfplotsset-definitions regarding sans-serif usage (axis and tick labels, legend) superfluous. Additionally, it solved the problem of displaying an additional node text in sans-serif font (which the pgfplotsset, in my case, did not).
    – pogo-otter
    Sep 13, 2016 at 6:57

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