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Steps to plot xkcd-style graphs using Matplotlib and Python
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System details : Ubuntu 14.04, python-2.7.

  1. Download Humor-Sans ttf font from here.
  2. Place it in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/. For OSx systems, you'd just need to double-click the font file to install.
  3. Run the following commands, to refresh your system's font cache and to delete Maplotlib's font cache. 
 sudo fc-cache -f -v
 cd ~/.cache/matplotlib; rm fontList.cache; cd  #for OSx systems, this file resides in ~/.matplotlib/

You can now use Matplotlib's xkcd() function to plot xkcd-style graphs.

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