Polish tick marks on barometer

[amanda-phet]

Discussed 1/5/23

• Sum of area could go by 50s instead of 40s
• Consider reducing weight (or number) of intermediate tick marks
• Consider only having tick marks on the left side and not overlapping with the bar

[veillette]

There are numerous changes below

The minor tick marks are set to gray, and I halved their linewidth. There are fewer major tick marks. I also reduced the font size of the values.

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I created an issue to support non-symmetric tick marks in Bamboo (our common-code charting library) as it is not possible to do at present time.

[pixelzoom]

Looking good!

[catherinecarter]

Looks great! I'm wondering if using fewer minor tick marks would be sufficient. With three tick marks between major tick marks of size 50 makes it challenging to calculate the increment. Perhaps one minor tick mark to mark 25 would be sufficient. I'd have to see it, but I suspect it might be ok.

[pixelzoom]

Here's what I see in master...

For Slope, major tick spacing of 5 seems nice, as does minor tick spacing of 1.

For Area, I'm not sure what @catherinecarter is reporting. I see major tick spacing of 100 (not 50), and the minor tick spacing of 25 seems fine.

So these both look great to me.

[catherinecarter]

Oh! Great! I think Martin may have changed it between me looking and then having meetings and now. Looks great :)

[amanda-phet]

What you have in screenshots here @pixelzoom looks great to me.

[veillette]

From that last messages, I think it is safe to close.