Arturo Serrano

Hi Anne,
you can change the colors by setting properties from the matlab command window. This should does the trick:

>> set (findobj (gca, 'type', 'patch'), 'edgecolor', [0.5 0.5 0.5], 'facecolor', [0.1 0.1 0.1]);

Edgecolor and facecolor values are the RGB values for bin colors (you can use letters also as plot does).

Great!!!

Doesn't seem to work with non-zero mean data sets. I found that the code below works better. It can not handle the case where you specify your own bin widths. But it can handle a matrix of data.
e.g.: histnorm([randn(1e3,1) randn(1e3,1)+8],50)

function varargout = histnorm(varargin)

len = size(varargin{1});
n = len(2);
[xo,no] = hist (varargin{:});
binwidths = diff(no);
xonorm = xo/sum (xo .* (binwidths(1)*ones(size(xo))))*n;
bar(no,xonorm);

Hi Anne,
you can change the colors by setting properties from the matlab command window. This should does the trick:

>> set (findobj (gca, 'type', 'patch'), 'edgecolor', [0.5 0.5 0.5], 'facecolor', [0.1 0.1 0.1]);

Edgecolor and facecolor values are the RGB values for bin colors (you can use letters also as plot does).