MATLAB: Put label in colorbar

colorbar unit

I put the label ('Power (dB') in my color bar, and the code is below:

a=colorbar;

ylabel(a,'Power (db)','FontSize',16,'Rotation',270);

However, the label is too close the colorbar (see the figure).

Can anyone help me? Thanks!

Also, how can I to put the different title for each subplot.

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The label object should have a position that you can edit. The rotation of 270 rather than 90 moves it inside the tick labels for some reason, but you can edit e.g.

hColourbar.Label.Position(1) = 3;

to change the x position of the label.

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EDITED

pos = get(c,'Position');
c.Label.Position = [pos(1)/2 pos(2)+1]; % to change its position
c.Label.Rotation = 0; % to rotate the text

MATLAB: How to position a label below a colorbar

You're almost there...

hCB=colorbar;
hCB.Title.String='Title';
set(hCB.XLabel,{'String','Rotation','Position'},{'XLabel',0,[0.5 -0.01]})

That MathWorks hides all the useful properties is maddening, agreed.

Unfortunately, in colorbar, they also aliased the handles for XLabel, YLabel, and Label to the same object so one is limited to just the two. Anything else one would need to add would have to be an additional text or annotation object.

NB: The above uses an arbitrary position for the y position; another issue is that the title is in figure coordinates in normalized units of figure scaling while the label is in colorbar axis data units.

>> hCB.Title.String='Title'
hCB = 
  ColorBar (XLabel) with properties:
    Location: 'eastoutside'
      Limits: [0 1.00]
    FontSize: 9.00
    Position: [0.82 0.11 0.04 0.82]
       Units: 'normalized'
  Show all properties
>> 
>> hCB.XLabel
ans = 
  Text (XLabel) with properties:
                 String: 'XLabel'
               FontSize: 9.00
             FontWeight: 'normal'
               FontName: 'Helvetica'
                  Color: [0.15 0.15 0.15]
    HorizontalAlignment: 'center'
               Position: [0.50 -0.01 0]
                  Units: 'data'
  Show all properties
>>

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