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		withinboredom 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Xkcd thing, now interactive The source code is right there ... just change the background image to whatever you want.

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inanutshellus 12 days ago [–]

Ha! ^_^

That text is literally the only thing hardcoded. It's inside a PNG, sourced in.

I get it though. Reproducing that cutesy "hand drawn" text would be a pain in the arse if you didn't just have the font.[1]

    [1] https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font

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