Related to #2
but also valid for contour line's elevation even on the bright sides of mountains : font size is really tiny, and especially on smartphone hard to read.
With raster rendering there is no dynamic font size selecting, so that is a trade-off, but I'm incline to raise it just a bit :
Currently a 7 : https://github.com/sletuffe/OpenTopoMap/blob/master/mapnik/styles-otm/contours.xml#L25
Might take a stab at 8 or 9