Combine LineStyleOrder and ColorOrder

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Hello all,
I have a dataset which I want to plot by looping through a specific set of colours and linestyles at the same time. My problem is that while the colours are looping through, the linestyles do not. Does anyone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong?
y2 = randi([10 50],14,12);
set(gcf,'DefaultAxesColorOrder',[0,0,1; ...
0,0.7,0.3; ...
0.5,0,1; ...
0,0,0; ...
0.6,0.6,0.6; ...
0,0,0; ...
0,0.75,0.75; ...
0.9,0.4,0; ...
0.9,0,0.1; ...
1,0.6,0; ...
0.3,1,0.3], ...
'DefaultAxesLineStyleOrder',{'-o','-','-.','-x','-+','--+','--','-.','-+','-o','-o'});
ax = gca;
for i = 1:size(y2,2)
plot(x,y2(:,2:end));
ax.LineStyleOrderIndex = ax.ColorOrderIndex;
end

Accepted Answer

Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 26 Sep 2021
If that didn't work then perhaps try it like this instead.
y2 = randi([10 50],11,11);
x = 1 : length(y2);
myColors = [0,0,1; ...
0,0.7,0.3; ...
0.5,0,1; ...
0,0,0; ...
0.6,0.6,0.6; ...
0,0,0; ...
0,0.75,0.75; ...
0.9,0.4,0; ...
0.9,0,0.1; ...
1,0.6,0; ...
0.3,1,0.3];
lineStyles = {'-','-','-','-','-','--','--','-','-','-','-'};
markerStyles = {'o','x','.','x','+','+','.','.','+','o','o'};
ax = gca;
for k = 1:size(y2,2)
thisColor = myColors(k, :)
thisLineStyle = lineStyles{k};
thisMarkerStyle = markerStyles{k};
plot(x,y2(k, :), 'Color', thisColor, ...
'LineStyle', thisLineStyle, ...
'Marker', thisMarkerStyle, ...
'LineWidth', 3, 'MarkerSize', 18);
hold on;
end
g = gcf;
g.WindowState = 'maximized'

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Adam Danz
Adam Danz on 17 Mar 2023
Starting in MATLAB R2023a you can cycle through LineStyleOrder and ColorOrder together by setting LineStyleCyclingMethod to 'withcolor'.
Demo
styles = {'-','-o', '-^'};
colors = [1 0 0; 0 0 1; 0 1 0];
ax = axes();
ax.LineStyleOrder = styles;
ax.ColorOrder = colors;
ax.LineStyleCyclingMethod = 'withcolor';
hold on
plot(0:.1:1, rand(1,11)+(1:6)')
legend

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