Why are some characters chopped off on the bottom in plots?

Below is an example of text from a legend. The top line is chopped but the lower line is not.

Here is some code that can generate the ugliness for you (unless I am mistaken). Just look at the Y-axis text.

figure;
plot([0,1],[0,1])
set(gca,'fontsize',18)

If you increase the fontsize to 19 or larger points then the issue seems to go away. What is going on?

[Walter Roberson]

Are you using... Ummm, let me think... R2015b?? On Linux??

There was a release which cut off text at the boundary on Linux systems. The easiest fix was to nudge the YLim to go down a bit further.

There was also an old release that the problem happened on Windows, and the solution had to do with changing the figure Renderer property.

[David Walwark]

I get these type of artifacts all the time, in previous versions and in 2019b. Should I be trying different renderers?

Answer 1

[Hiro Yoshino]

figure;
plot([0,1],[0,1],[0,1],[0,1])
set(gca,'fontsize',18)
legend('nissio', 'pop.');

Mine did work well with R2019b.

[David Walwark]

I remarked my entire startup.m, restarted matlab, and ran the code again. I updated the question to reflect Matlab 2019b (on windows 10). Still having this issue.