Change mat-button padding to match Material Design Guidelines

[ryan-neufeld]

Bug, feature request, or proposal: Change mat-button padding to 8px Left and Right

What is the expected behavior?

• 8px Left and Right padding on mat-button (aka basic button, aka text button)

What is the current behavior?

• 16px left and right padding on mat-button

What are the steps to reproduce?

StackBlitz: https://stackblitz.com/angular/moookenqrpqq?file=src%2Fapp%2Fbutton-types-example.html

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

• Align Angular Material with Material Design guidelines and specifications
• https://material.io/components/buttons/#specs

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

• Angular Material 8.2.3 and below

Is there anything else we should know?

• N/A

[jmarquesh]

Isn't this solved with Angular Material 15?