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Introducing the xkcd-font

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Introducing the xkcd-font

Lightning talk at Euroscipy 2017.

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  2. Source: https://matplotlib.org

  3. Source: https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font/issues/9#issuecomment-127412261

  4. Source: https://pelson.github.io/2017/xkcd_font/ scipy.ndimage.label + skimage.measure.label FontForge’s python interface Docker to

    create the font using CI
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