Getting xkcd plots using matplotlib

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To get it working, you need

  • matplotlib 1.3.1 (it won’t work with matplotlib 1.3.0 or earlier)
    • sudo pip install matplotlib --upgrade
  • font Humor Sans
    • download from here or here, install (on OS X you open it and click Install)
  • remove the matplotlib font cache (as suggested by DanHickstein in matplotlib/issues/2269)
    • rm ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache

Now, execute the code and it should work.

You do not need to change backend to TkAgg, as some people suggest. For me it works perfectly fine on 'module://IPython.kernel.zmq.pylab.backend_inline' (you can check it by plt.get_backend()).

(I had the same problem and I’ve solved it, at least on OS X 10.8.5, with matplotlib 1.3.1 and IPython 2.0.0; removing font cache was necessary to get the font running.)

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