On the MacOS X backend, the canvas is rendered at high resolution, but the icons are still low-res: <img width="885" alt="screen shot 2015-08-22 at 4 22 26 pm" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/314716/9424359/12ac4b9a-48ea-11e5-942b-16f64f5df12b.png"> It would be nice to use higher-res icons on backends that support HiDPI (at least MacOS X, PyQt5, and maybe others) It looks like the icons are in SVG in `lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/` so it should be easy to generate new ones.