Size as aestetic about ggfittext

[BradyAJohnston]

Hi @rasmusagren I don't know if you've had success with this, but in poking around trying to get some other stuff working I found that you can do that without a problem. You can pass size as one of the ... arguments in geom_fit_text(size = 8).

The font should only increase in size if you specify grow = TRUE.

Normal

ggplot(animals, aes(x = type, y = flies, label = animal)) +
  geom_tile(fill = "white", colour = "black") +
  geom_fit_text()

Specific size

ggplot(animals, aes(x = type, y = flies, label = animal)) +
  geom_tile(fill = "white", colour = "black") +
  geom_fit_text(size = 10)

Growing Smaller Text

ggplot(animals, aes(x = type, y = flies, label = animal)) +
  geom_tile(fill = "white", colour = "black") +
  geom_fit_text(grow = TRUE)

[wilkox]

Thanks Brady for your response, and sorry Rasmus it's taken me so long to get to this issue! Brady's answer is correct – the default situation is for the text to have a fixed size (12 by default, but can be changed with the size argument) and only shrink if the box is too small. You should only get the 'huge' labels if grow = TRUE, or if size 12 is already very large compared to the size of your boxes. In the latter case you should probably set a smaller size.

If it's still not looking the way you want please post a reprex and I can try and tweak it for you.