hold all vs. hold on

If I use hold all when I have multiple plot functions, the colormap looks smooth and easy on eye. However, if I use hold on and specify the line colors for each plot function (i.e. '-b', '-g' etc.), the colors look too bright and harsh on eye.

I think hold all uses a different colormap but I haven't been able to incorporate this coloring to individual color setting as mentioned above.

How can I change the colormap when I choose to define the line color for each plot as in the example below? Thanks.

plot(x1,y1, '-sg', 'LineWidth', 2); plot(x2,y2, '-sb', 'LineWidth', 2); plot(x3,y3, '-sr', 'LineWidth', 2);

Answer 1

[Laura Proctor]

You can find the colors used for hold all by issuing the command

get(gca,'ColorOrder')

which returns:

         0         0    1.0000
         0    0.5000         0
    1.0000         0         0
         0    0.7500    0.7500
    0.7500         0    0.7500
    0.7500    0.7500         0
    0.2500    0.2500    0.2500

They may be different than the colors used by the alphabetic code.

The green is different. To use the green from hold all:

plot(1:10,'Color',[0 0.5 0])

[mehmet]

That command returns the exact same matrix for both figures (hold all and hold on).

0 0 1.0000

0 0.5000 0

1.0000 0 0

0 0.7500 0.7500

0.7500 0 0.7500

0.7500 0.7500 0

0.2500 0.2500 0.2500

[mehmet]

By the way, how do you change the font for the commands here.