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A comment on XKCD-style charts with D3. Parent comment

Re:XKCD-style charts with D3 by TeMPOraL on Friday October 19, 2012 @02:56AM (#4672564)
I'd say, a little bit too much jitter, especially in text. Some of the versions for Mathematica, et al. were a little bit closer, IMO.
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Re:XKCD-style charts with D3 by pygy_ on Friday October 19, 2012 @04:01AM (#4672658)
The text is just a matter of font. The rendering of the graphs look exactly like the original, and that's the hard part.

Edit: as pointed out below, the algorithm was lifted from another version done in Python/Matplotlib by Jake Vanderplas: http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i...

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Re:XKCD-style charts with D3 by pygy_ on Friday October 19, 2012 @06:28AM (#4672942)
The edit window is now closed, but I realised that the font he uses is Humor Sans, which is based on Randal Munroe's handwriting (the author of XKCD).

http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/2009/03/xkcdsucks-is-proud-to-...

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Re:XKCD-style charts with D3 by richardwhiuk on Friday October 19, 2012 @04:25AM (#4672714)
I'd agree that the font is too much - it's bordering on illegible for me in Chrome 22 on Win 7.
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Re:XKCD-style charts with D3 by pygy_ on Friday October 19, 2012 @08:53AM (#4673272)
It is badly hinted and thus badly anti-aliased.
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