Figure is covered by giant black blob when using xkcd

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I’m getting this strange result when I try to use xkcd mode.
This is from the example in XKCD — Matplotlib 3.7.0.dev1603+g81f5f24c48 documentation. I’m not sure what i’m doing wrong here or what i’m missing.
The same pattern results in plot, svg, png and pdf.
Thanks.
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I’d take sure you don’t have anything funky in your matplotlibrc

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I just tried again with a fresh environment but it’s still happening. Should I raise an issue for this?

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A fresh environment won’t erase any custom matplotlibrc you have added.

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I just double checked where it was being loaded from with matplotlib.matplotlib_fname() and it was loading the default, unchanged matplotlibrc from the new venv. I don’t believe the one on my main install was modified either.

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You could open an issue. I can’t reproduce, but if you are consistently getting this result, perhaps someone else can.