More lay description for "Use old style figures"?

Joel Kulesza jkulesza at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 19:44:59 UTC 2020


On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 9:10 AM José Abílio Matos <jamatos at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 14 July 2020 15.49.41 WEST Joel Kulesza wrote:
> > On a personal note, this has been an interesting discussion, and I
> > appreciate it, but I sympathize with Scott and would be totally confused
> by
> > "old style figure."  Right or wrong, the first thing I thought of was a
> > graphical filter that would have rendered something similar to a
> > 15th-century illuminated manuscript.
>
> I agree with Joel.
> BTW another useful option would be xkcd graphics:
> https://xkcd.com/1945/


This is even more accessible for easy adoption:
https://matplotlib.org/3.1.1/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.xkcd.html

- Joel
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