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Font Size adjustment in Figure label and scale

Peter Schreiber — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:40:03 -0400

Hi guys,
Does somebody know how to adjust the font size for figure labes, and also the scale on the figure?
The default is 10 but I would like to set it to 16.

I tried the following, but it didn't work.

set(gcf,'FontSize',16)

Best Regards,
Peter

Re: Font Size adjustment in Figure label and scale

Walter Roberson — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:01:56 -0400

Peter Schreiber wrote:

> Does somebody know how to adjust the font size for figure labes, and also the scale on the figure?
> The default is 10 but I would like to set it to 16.

> I tried the following, but it didn't work.

> set(gcf,'FontSize',16)

set(findobj(gcf,'Type','text'),'FontSize',16)

Re: Font Size adjustment in Figure label and scale

First Last — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:06:01 -0400

"Peter Schreiber" <schreiber.peter15@gmail.com> wrote in message <gdd71j$6ln$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi guys,
> Does somebody know how to adjust the font size for figure labes, and also the scale on the figure?
> The default is 10 but I would like to set it to 16.
>
> I tried the following, but it didn't work.
>
> set(gcf,'FontSize',16)
>
> Best Regards,
> Peter

Hello Peter, to do this you have to grab a handle for the XLabel properties, which is a child of gca. So ...

h_xlabel = get(gca,'XLabel');
set(h_xlabel,'FontSize',N);

where N is your font size number. To view the other properties that can be set, simply do a

get(h_xlabel)

It helps me to have 'more on' in order to view the output better.