Default font size is too small??

[ma-laforge]

...Sorry for opening a duplicate of #739. I am hoping this might help get your attention @tbreloff (The other thread sounds specific to pyplot).

It appears that the default font sizes hover around 8 for most things, and 11 for titles.

Since many backends presumably translate 8 points @ 72 dots per inch to 8 pixels... I personally find that results in small, barely visible fonts.

To circumvent this issue with inspectdr, I personally chose to scale up the font sizes to keep things more readable:

_inspectdr_mapptsize(v) = 1.5*v

But given the other complaints I have been hearing from pyplot users - I thought I would bring it up.

I know you want to deprecate pyplot, but they might actually have a point here: The default font sizes are quite small when drawn on screen or saved to a pixel-based image.

[ma-laforge]

Upon further investigation, I decided my claims are not justified:

A font size of 8 points for tick labels, etc is quite adequate when displayed on screen (No issues with readability). It also allows us to not waste too much too much real-estate.

I defer to Issue #555 as the problem. There should be a better way to set defaults.