How to modify the distance between the numbers and the bar and increase tick width in a matlab colorbar?

Dear Matlab experts,

I need a nice colorbar with numbers.

But the bar generated was too close to the tick labels (See the following picture). And the line width of ticks were too small.

Therefore, do you know how to set the distance between the number and the colorbar and increase the line width of ticks?

Or do you have available codes for a nicer colorbar?

Thank you!

[Walter Roberson]

Which MATLAB release? The method changed twice recently.

[Pratik Bhatt]

Matlab 2020

Answer 1

[Chunru]

x = randi([-4 4], [8 7]);
subplot(121);
imagesc(x);
colormap(jet)
h1 = colorbar;
subplot(122);
imagesc(x);
colormap(jet)
h2 = colorbar

h2 = 
  ColorBar with properties:

    Location: 'eastoutside'
      Limits: [-4 4]
    FontSize: 7.6500
    Position: [0.8232 0.1109 0.0239 0.8152]
       Units: 'normalized'

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h2.Ticks = [-4:2:4];