XKCD
In this lesson, we will learn how to plot a chart in XKCD-style.
Are you familiar with xkcd? xkcd is a webcomic that focuses on romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Its comic format is very distinctive and easy to recognize. Matplotlib helps us create an xkcd-style plot with only one additional line of code.
As we can see from the example code below, we can wrap our normal code with a with plt.xkcd()
clause, which we’ve done in line 4
. The chart will now be converted to xkcd-style. This is the only code we need to add. Everything else remains the same
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
with plt.xkcd():
## Plot your chart here
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