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Colors Controlled By Axes

Axes properties specify the color of the axis lines, tick marks, labels, and the background. Properties also control the color of the lines drawn by plotting routines and how image, patch, and surface objects obtain colors from the figure colormap.

The axes properties discussed in this section are listed in the following table.

Property
Characteristic it Controls
Color

Axes background color
XColor, YColor, ZColor

Color of the axis lines, tick marks, gridlines and labels
Title

Title text object handles
XLabel, YLabel, Zlabel

Axis label text object handles
CLim

Controls mapping of graphic object CData to the figure colormap
CLimMode

Automatic or manual control of CLim property
ColorOrder

Line color autocycle order
LineStyleOrder

Line styles autocycle order (not a color, but related to ColorOrder)



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