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add xkcd style #5992
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Can't believe we don't have this one already. Not perfectly trivial, as we would need a way to specify the special patheffect from the rcfile, but, essentially, this would replace plt.xkcd().
Should also look into finding an open font that we can package that matches Humor Sans.
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souravsingh commentedon Feb 28, 2016
I would like to work on the issue.How do I start?
jenshnielsen commentedon Feb 28, 2016
@souravsingh Awesome
I suggest having a look at the existing styles (.sty) files in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/master/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib to see how they work.
The code that defines the pyplot.xkcd is here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py#L353 so as a first step you can copy the rc params changes from there into a .sty file.
github-actions commentedon Mar 21, 2023
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rcomer commentedon Mar 21, 2023
This still seems like something we should have.
anntzer commentedon Jun 26, 2023
@rcomer Perhaps we can decide whether we want to move forward with #14943 (or something along these lines) -- I don't really want to spend time arguing for it anymore. If we really don't want python style files, even restricted to matplotlib's own styles, then I think we should close this as effectively unfixable (because instantiating patheffects, even declaratively, necessarily means importing a python class and thus running arbitrary python code).
timhoffm commentedon Jun 26, 2023
What could speak against python style files:
Both aspects do not apply as long as we keep python style files internal. - I think this is a good way forward a) to provide
xkcdas style and b) to learn how python style files could be used without locking in on a certain API yet.Thus I support going forward with interal python style files. We can later decide whether we want to make this public as well.
anntzer commentedon Jun 26, 2023
OK, I rebased and reopened #14943, let's discuss that over there.
github-actions commentedon Jun 26, 2024
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