Bar graph coloring and shading

I want to be able to shade/color a bar graph orange. I want the darkest or brightest orange to be at the far right, and have it get lighter to an almost whitish orange at the left of the graph. heres what ive been trying so far: the middle option wouldnt work cause I couldnt get orange any help since it's not available.

x=(1:13)
y=[177;47;40;21;21;13;12;14;10;5;2;4;3]

bar(x,y)

% bar([177,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],'r');
% hold on
% bar([0,47],'b');
% bar([0,0,40],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,21],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,21],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,13],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,0,12],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,14],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,10],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,4],'g')
% bar([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3],'g')

set(gca,'XTickLabel',{'0-4.5','5-9.5','10-14.5','15-19.5','20-24.5','25-29.5','30-34.5','35-39.5','40-44.5','45-49.5','50-54.5','55-59.5','>60'})

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

No reason to reinvent the wheel:

• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29635-generalized-bar-charts
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/34328-setcolorbarbygroup

[Dimitri]

Thank you for those, but I still dont know how to "shade" my bar graphs. Do i have to manually input all my colors for orange? or is there a way to make it so theres just a gradient that goes across all bars? So the first bar will be light, and the last bar will be dark. I also want them to be orange, not sure if that makes a difference.

[Sean de Wolski]

Sorry, missed the shading part. You will have to set the shading to interp in there somewhere. I'll see if I can find it. If not, this would be easy with patch objects.

[Dimitri]

I'm really not that proficient in Matlab, so sorry for not really understanding. But, i'm confused as to what these two links are giving me.

Can I still use what I had? The following:

x=(1:13)
y=[177;47;40;21;21;13;12;14;10;5;2;4;3]
bar(x,y)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',{'0-4.5','5-9.5','10-14.5','15-19.5','20-24.5','25-29.5','30-34.5','35-39.5','40-44.5','45-49.5','50-54.5','55-59.5','>60'})

And how do I use the color orange? And make it so it's shaded? I have seen the shade command, and tried using it with what I had, but couldnt get it to work. I believe i used

shade interp

right after

bar(x,y)