How do you control the font size of a figure that is used in an academic publication?

[abraemer]

With Makie this is rather easy. There was just a thread the other day:

Figure and font size when using `Plots`

Ah, my mistake was using pt_per_unit in the wrong place… it should be used when saving the PDF. So it was using the default value (0.75). I can also use one of the default themes instead of specifying the font myself. Here is the solution that works. using CairoMakie x = 0:0.01:2π y = cos.(x); pt_per_unit = 1 figsizeinches(width, height) = (width, height) .* (72/pt_per_unit) height = 2.5 # inches width = 4.5 # inches fontsize = 10 set_theme!(theme_latexfonts(); fontsize) f = Figure(; size…

It is also explained in the documentation:

Figures | Makie

The only thing missing is that you need to set pt_per_unit when saving and not upon creation of the Figure.