I'm not. I usually use Tippecanoe [https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe] to create vector tiles with my data on, and then p

I'm not. I usually use Tippecanoe [https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe] to create vector tiles with my data on, and then pick a set of raster tiles from here [http://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ http://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/] (the Stamen ones are very nice, and also the ESRI ones are gorgeous but need you to have an ESRI license) for background and labels.