Specifying the Color of Axes, Axis Names, Ticks, and Tick Values in Julia Plots 📂Julia

Specifying the Color of Axes, Axis Names, Ticks, and Tick Values in Julia Plots

Overview

The keywords related to specifying the color of axes and ticks in Plots.jl are as follows.

Keyword Name	Function
`guidefontcolor`	Specify axis name color
`foreground_color_border`, `fgcolor_border`	Specify axis color
`foreground_color_axis`, `fgcolor_axis`	Specify tick color
`foreground_color_text`, `fgcolor_text`	Specify tick value color

Adding x_ or y_ in front of the keyword name applies it to the respective axis only.

Code¹

Axis Names

The keyword to specify the color of axis names is guidefontcolor. Axis names can be specified with xlabel, ylabel.

x = randn(10, 3)

plot(plot(x, guidefontcolor = :red),
     plot(x, x_guidefontcolor = :red),
     plot(x, y_guidefontcolor = :red),
     xlabel = "x label",
     ylabel = "y label",
)

Axes

The keyword to specify the color of axes is foreground_color_border.

plot(plot(x, foreground_color_border = :red),
     plot(x, x_foreground_color_border = :red),
     plot(x, y_foreground_color_border = :red),
     xlabel = "x label",
     ylabel = "y label",
)

Ticks

The keyword to specify the color of ticks is foreground_color_axis. Setting it to false only removes the ticks.

plot(plot(x, foreground_color_axis = :red),
     plot(x, x_foreground_color_axis = :red),
     plot(x, y_foreground_color_axis = false),
     xlabel = "x label",
     ylabel = "y label",
)

Tick Values

The keyword to specify the color of tick values is foreground_color_text. Setting it to false only removes the tick values.

plot(plot(x, foreground_color_text = :red),
     plot(x, x_foreground_color_text = :red),
     plot(x, y_foreground_color_text = flase),
     xlabel = "x label",
     ylabel = "y label",
)

Environment

OS: Windows11
Version: Julia 1.9.4, Plots v1.39.0