Color indidual labels in plot

Hi,

I created a plot inside of a UI with text as one of the axis labels. I'd like to color one of the labels in red (not all of them). How do I do this?

This is the syntax I am using. I'd like to make 'Two' red.

set(handles.axPlot, 'YTickLabel', {'One', 'Two', 'Three});

I've tried html and latex, but neither works.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

As Walter The Great has explained here, this isn't possible to do since the tick labels are not processed through an interpreter nor HTML.

You can replace the y ticks with text() objects instead with the 2 lines of code below (axh is the handle to the axes).

axh = cla(); 
set(axh, 'YTick', 1:3, 'YTickLabel','')

ylim(axh,[0,4])  % Axis limits must be set first!
xlim(axh,[0,4])  % Axis limits must be set first!

h = text(min(xlim(axh))*ones(3,1), 1:3, {'one','two','three'},'rotation',90, ...
'VerticalAlignment', 'bottom', 'HorizontalAlignment', 'center')
h(2).Color = 'r'; 

Alternatively, you can use this file exchange function (labelpoints.m) and the line of code below (axh is the handle to the axes).

axh = cla();
set(axh, 'YTick', 1:3, 'YTickLabel','')

ylim(axh,[0,4])  % Axis limits must be set first!
xlim(axh,[0,4])  % Axis limits must be set first!

labelpoints(min(xlim(axh)), 1:3, {'one','two','three'}, 'W', 0.3, ...
    'rotation',90,'Color', {'k', 'r', 'k'},'FontSize', 12);