Getting Started

Specifying Line Styles and Colors

It is possible to specify color, line styles, and markers (such as plus signs or circles) when you plot your data using the plot command.

• plot(x,y,'color_style_marker')
  

color_style_marker is a string containing from one to four characters (enclosed in single quotation marks) constructed from a color, a line style, and a marker type:

• Color strings are 'c', 'm', 'y', 'r', 'g', 'b', 'w', and 'k'. These correspond to cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green, blue, white, and black.
• Linestyle strings are '-' for solid, '--' for dashed, ':' for dotted, '-.' for dash-dot. Omit the linestyle for no line.
• The marker types are '+', 'o', '*', and 'x' and the filled marker types are 's' for square, 'd' for diamond, '^' for up triangle, 'v' for down triangle, '>' for right triangle, '<' for left triangle, 'p' for pentagram, 'h' for hexagram, and none for no marker.

You can also edit color, line style, and markers interactively. See Editing Plots for more information.

Multiple Data Sets in One Graph

Plotting Lines and Markers