Matlab, can you create a separate font size for the x tick mark label and y tick mark label?

Matlab, I would like the font sizes to be independent for all the axis attributes. Currently, the x and y axis labels must be the same size, and the tick labels for each axis must be the same size. I would like to have the x tick labels be size 12 and the y tick labels be size 20. I'd imagine that someone out there is interested in doing something similar for the axis labels also. While that is a long term fix, my current problem is that the greek letter pi displays at about half the height of numbers. While I am aware that I can put a text box in with a different font size, that isn't really an efficient solution.

Thanks,

dack

Answer 1

[Adam]

If you are using R2015b or later you can do the following:

hAxes.XAxis.FontSize = 12;
hAxes.YAxis.FontSize = 20;

for an axes handle hAxes.

[David]

Hello,

Thank you for this answer. It is more convenient to address the axes properties through a structure system. However, the following command: hAxes.YAxis.FontSize = 20; sets the entire group of fonts of the Y axis to 20. So the tick labels will display at a font of 20 (which is what I wanted), unfortunately, the Y axis label is now 22. Ideally, I would like the Y axis label to be font 18. I could set the LabelFontSizeMultiplier to something else, but this will change the ratio between the XTickLabel font and the X axis Title font. So, I am still stuck with one too few variables.

Ideally, I would get: YTick label size: 20 Y Axis Label size: 18 XTick label size: 12 X Axis Label Size: 18

I'm not sure if this is possible.

Axis label size is related to axis font size through a constant multiplier. Tick label size is related to axis font size through a constant multiplier. I need another degree of freedom.

dack

Answer 2

[Robert]

In R2016a (and probably anything R2014b or after), you can set different font sizes for each axis using

ax = gca;
ax.XAxis.FontSize = 12;
ax.YAxis.FontSize = 20;

To get a separate font size within a single label (if you use the default 'tex' interpreter) use

'2\fontsize{32}\pi' % or whatever font size you prefer

You could also use a secondary label to indicate that your values are multiples of pi using

set(ax.XAxis.SecondaryLabel,'Visible','on','String','\times\pi','FontSize',22)