Possible to set new colors with a string color specifier?

The color specifier of a line can be set with 'b' for blue for example. Is it possible to this also for the new color order? Or is it possible to map somehow the "old" blue to the new blue, lighter blue? I would like to have the simple notation of the old color order with the new color order.

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi Stefan,

you can use this data:

c = get(0, 'DefaultAxesColorOrder');
plot(x, y, 'Color', c(1,:));

Titus

Answer 2

[Guillaume]

No, when you specify the colour 'b', it doesn't mean pick the blue colour in colororder, it means use the colour [0 0 1] regardless of what's in the colororder property.

There is no way to override this. (see ColorSpec in the doc).

[Stefan Gachter]

Thanks for your reply. Is it possible to access the color of the "colororder"? Something like

plot(x, y, 'Color', colororder(1))

Answer 3

[Image Analyst]

See my demo (attached below this image that it creates) for changing the default color order.