Custom Colors for Plots

This function provides a selection of colors easy to differentiate for plotting graphics.

Description

In plot graphs, often it's needed to use a several colors that can be easily differentiated on a first look on the graphic. With this function you can call easily (by name or by code) a selection of 15 colors.
It's very simple and there are more elegant ways to do it, but I think it's a very functional solution.

Examples:
for ccc=1:15
plot(ccc*ones(1,10),'Linewidth',4,'Color', CustomColors(ccc))
end

plot(ones(1,10),'Linewidth',4,'Color', CustomColors('Coral'))
plot(ones(1,10),'Linewidth',4,'Color', CustomColors('DeepSkyBlue4'))

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.12 (R2011a)

[Julian]

Sweet! thanks

[Jan Simon]

I cannot really distinguish the colors magenta4 and darkorchid on my screen.
The "for ct2" loop to find a matching name is inefficient. Better: "ct2 = find(strcmpi(NColors, ct1));"
fprintf() is more efficient than disp(sprintf()) as recommended by MLINT.
There is no need to enclose vectors in double square brackets.