MATLAB: How to change the fontface of a text within a plot

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Quick question, can I change the font face on MATLABs plot to other not being Arial (At least I think the default style is Arial).

If I were to change it to Times New Roman, what must I do?

Can you please help?

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title() and *label() accept 'FontName' property/value pairs. You can also use a FontName property/value pair in an axes() call, or you can set() that.

Note that if you set() an axes fontname, then http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/axes_props.html

"Note that MATLAB does not display the x-, y-, and z-axis labels in a new font until you manually reset them (by setting the XLabel, YLabel, and ZLabel properties or by using the xlabel, ylabel, or zlabel command). Tick mark labels change immediately."

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MATLAB: Fontsize and properties of Xticklabels using figure handles

"How do I cange the Xticklabels of a plot using figure handles?"

Get the axis handle from the figure handle.

ax = gca(figureHandle);

Get the XAxis handle from the axis handle and set the FontSize of the x-axis only.

ax.XAxis.FontSize = 16;

or set the fontsize of the entire axis (x & y)

ax.FontSize = 14;

Set the XTick and XTick labels

ax.XTick = 1:4; 
ax.XTickLabel = {'A' 'B' 'C' 'D'};

MATLAB: How to change the font size of text in a figure

To change the font size, set the “FontSize” property for the axes. Since many plotting functions reset axes properties, including the font size, set the "FontSize" property after plotting.

For example, the code below sets the font size to 16 points. The tick labels use the specified font size. The title and axis labels use a slightly larger font size.

   plot(1:10) 
   title('My title') 
   xlabel('My label') 
   ax = gca; 
   ax.FontSize = 16;

Alternatively, if you want more individual control over the font size, you can specify the “FontSize” property as name-value pair to the “title” and “xlabel” functions, as in the example below.

   plot(1:10) 
   title('My title','FontSize',16) 
   xlabel('My label','FontSize',10)

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