📂Programing

How to Specify Colors, Line Styles, and Marker Types in MATLAB Graphs

Properties

The properties of a graph can be specified as follows.

Graph Color	Marker	Line Style
Red r	Dot .	Solid -
Green g	Star *	Dotted :
Blue b	X x	Dash-dot -.
Black k	Circle o (letter o)	Dashed --
Yellow y	Plus +
Magenta m	Square s
White w	Diamond d
Cyan c	Star p
	Triangle down v
	Triangle up ^
	Triangle left <
	Triangle right >
	Hexagon h

Example

x=linspace(0,1,20);
y=x.^3+3.*x.^2+3.*x+1;

figure()
plot(x,y,'ro')
hold on
plot(x,y+1,'g-')
plot(x,y+2,'c:')
plot(x,y+3,'k--')
legend({'ro', 'g-', 'c:', 'k--'})