Quite a nice look. It's interesting how Physics and geometry problems are often best indicated with rough hand-drawn diagrams. If you draw a freehand triangle with chalk on a board, you can't help but seeing it as an idealised triangle - an indication of some symbolic representation engine in the brain.
But you don't want to distort the message either. How do you know that you will not infer the wrong conclusion on another chart if you bend the curves, think of a chart showing two curves, one being slightly higher than the other.
By no means to I want to sound like a party-pooper (truly, I love this stuff and plan to use it), but this feels like this is the "Comic Sans" of graphing. In an essence, we know better than to use it in a serious sense, but someone, somewhere might use it incorrectly, then suddenly, poof, everyone's XKCDing their graphs
Just like Comic Sans, I'm not really sure there is an appropriate use for XKCD style outside of the actual XKCD comic and similar-style comics. It's a cliche that has no functional purpose.
The suggestion I've heard is that the xkcd style is a good way to signal "this is just an informal whiteboard sketch, not a highly-refined analysis". I think there's a place for that.
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