Reexamine default plot font sizes

[Kevin Milner]

We may want to rethink our default fault sizes, especially since screens are getting higher and higher density. For example, Ned says that he is constantly increasing font sizes for plots.

[Kevin Milner]

Original Font Sizes

[Kevin Milner]

New Font Sizes Proposed by Ned

[Kevin Milner]

Ned just proposed the following (via e-mail):

graph.setTickLabelFontSize(14);
graph.setAxisLabelFontSize(16);
graph.setPlotLabelFontSize(18);

Here is how our Hazard Curve application currently looks by default (you need to view the ticket in a browser to see the images):

And here it is with the proposed sizes:

Thoughts? Alternatively we could only use the new values as defaults when using GraphiWindowAPI_Impl if we wanted to keep the default sizes in our apps (I'm not proposing this, just mentioning it as a possibility).

[Peter Powers]

The current sizes look ok for print. Ned, are you increasing the sizes for presentations?
Could/should we set a flag for screen vs print presentation?

[Ned Field]

I've never seen a problem from GUI apps, but rather when making and saving images for papers or presentations. As Morgan's ppt slides demonstrated, the default is no good for the latter. I have no preference whether we just apply changes to GraphiWindowAPI_Impl.

I've also noticed that the axis labels sometime look horrible (the numbers are all scrunched together).

[Kevin Milner]

This was eventually done, splitting the difference between the two examples given above.