I suggest that the user be able to change the default distance between the title and the axes (or whatever you call the white area with the "meat" of the plot). The default is too small - look around the matplotlib webpages, and a lot of plots have the title overlapping the y axis labels (esp. when a 1eN like 1e5 is displayed) or when a colorbar is used.

I fully realize one can do title('foo', y=1.1). But I don't want to type the 1.1 all the time! I could define my own function, but then the code isn't sharable.

So, please, add a "titlepad" analogous to "labelpad." I can't see why there should be one but not both.

Thanks!