xkcd is Randall Munroe's webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language — launched in 2005 by a former NASA roboticist who proved that stick figures, white space, and a sharp punchline need nothing else. The aesthetic is rigorously austere: black pen on white, no panel borders, no color except rare blue or yellow accents, monospaced captions below each strip.

This design system captures that radical minimalism — the conviction that the drawing is incidental to the idea, that everyone is just a stick figure trying to figure things out. It pairs Munroe's hand-lettering voice with clean readable type for interfaces that feel intellectually honest and visually weightless.