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(I don't have strong feelings about axes_grid; this PR was mostly motivated by fixing a regression I caused some time ago...)

@timhoffm Can we reach a decision on this? I still mildly prefer restoring support for ngrids (perhaps prior to larger changes later) but don't really mind if we decide instead...

Interaction between scales and units is a bit underspecified, see e.g. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/20340 and linked issues.

It's indeed from a real world use case: this comes from performing ridge detection (of a single ridge) on frames of a movie, and then resampling (with np.interp()) the intensities...

> > do we want to keep the old dvipng-based codepath? > > What is the consequence of not doing that? Font output depending on installed FreeType version? It would,...

I have regenerated the baselines and split them into a separate commit.

todo by @anntzer based on discussion: replace _draw_glyph_at by _render_glyph (on top of #30059) & keep the old rendering engine for now. Edit: both are done.