{"id":10805,"date":"2024-03-14T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-use-plot-in-matlab-to-set-line-style-and-color\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:09:37","slug":"how-do-you-use-plot-in-matlab-to-set-line-style-and-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-use-plot-in-matlab-to-set-line-style-and-color\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Plot Line Style &#038; Color Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Matlab, you can use the plot function to draw graphs and customize the line style and color. The following is an example code on how to set the line style and color:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>x = <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>:<span class=\"hljs-number\">0.1<\/span>:<span class=\"hljs-number\">10<\/span>;\r\ny1 = <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">sin<\/span>(x);\r\ny2 = <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">cos<\/span>(x);\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\">% \u7ed8\u5236y1\u5e76\u8bbe\u7f6e\u7ebf\u578b\u4e3a\u7ea2\u8272\u5b9e\u7ebf<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">plot<\/span>(x, y1, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'r-'<\/span>);\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">hold<\/span> on;\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\">% \u7ed8\u5236y2\u5e76\u8bbe\u7f6e\u7ebf\u578b\u4e3a\u84dd\u8272\u865a\u7ebf<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">plot<\/span>(x, y2, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'b--'<\/span>);\r\n\r\nxlabel(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'x'<\/span>);\r\nylabel(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'y'<\/span>);\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">legend<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'sin(x)'<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'cos(x)'<\/span>);\r\ntitle(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'Sin and Cos functions'<\/span>);\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">hold<\/span> off;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, &#8216;r-&#8216; represents a solid red line and &#8216;b\u2013&#8217; represents a dashed blue line. 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The following is an example code on how to set the line style and color: x = 0:0.1:10; y1 = sin(x); y2 = cos(x); % \u7ed8\u5236y1\u5e76\u8bbe\u7f6e\u7ebf\u578b\u4e3a\u7ea2\u8272\u5b9e\u7ebf plot(x, y1, &#8216;r-&#8216;); hold on; % \u7ed8\u5236y2\u5e76\u8bbe\u7f6e\u7ebf\u578b\u4e3a\u84dd\u8272\u865a\u7ebf plot(x, y2, &#8216;b&#8211;&#8216;); xlabel(&#8216;x&#8217;); [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13655,13620,13654,13656,13657],"class_list":["post-10805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-line-style","tag-matlab-graphics","tag-matlab-plot","tag-plot-color","tag-plot-customization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MATLAB Plot Line Style &amp; Color Guide - Blog - Silicon Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn to customize MATLAB plot styles &amp; colors with examples. 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