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Default Color Scheme

The default figure color scheme produces good contrast and visibility for the various graphics functions. This scheme defines colors for the window background, the axis background, the axis lines and labels, the colors of the lines used for plotting and surface edges, and other properties that affect appearance.

The colordef function enables you to select from predefined color schemes and to modify colors individually. colordef predefines three color schemes:

You can examine the colordef.m M-file to determine what properties it sets (enter type colordef at the MATLAB prompt).


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