How do I make the legend color rectangles smaller?
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In barplots legends I find too wide the boxes that show each color. I want they to be more like squares so I can have a narrower legend and save space. Is there any way to do it?
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Girijashankar Sahoo
el 20 de Mayo de 2021
legend({'A','B'},'Position',[0.2 0.6 0.1 0.2])
%% four-element vector of the form [left bottom width height]
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Bill Tubbs
el 22 de Mzo. de 2023
Editada: Bill Tubbs
el 22 de Mzo. de 2023
This doesn't seem to have an effect on the size of the coloured boxes. For example, if I set my legend position to [0.15 0.68 0.0 0.21]` the rectangle size does not go lower than it's minimum which is about 0.2 inches.
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/1332580/image.png)
The width of these colour boxes seems a bit excessive. Especially when for some publications the whole figure has to be less than 3".
Miguel Ángel Palomo
el 10 de Mzo. de 2024
After playing with the objects in a graph, I`ve found a way to change the size and shape of the boxes that show each color. I`ve found that each of the color boxes is a patch in the icons of the legend, and you can work from there.
[h,icons] = legend([A,B],{'F_mean','F_max'});
legend('boxoff') %This is optional
boxes=findobj(icons,'type','patch');
box1=boxes(1);
box1.XData=[0.4;0.4;0.6;0.6];
%The values here work for my case, but you may have to change them
box1.LineWidth=1;
box2=boxes(2);
box2.XData=[0.4;0.4;0.6;0.6];
box2.LineWidth=1;
%You may also change YData, but it is not necessary to make them square-like.
After this, the boxes look like this:
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/1639856/image.png)
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