How to change the font of ticks in a colorbar?

I have a matlab polt and everything like label and title is interpreted in latex style. There is also a colorbar in this figure and I want the ticks at this colorbar in latex style too.

For the rest I have code like this

if true
  set(0,'DefaultTextInterpreter','latex')
  set(0,'DefaultLegendInterpreter','latex')
end

and it runs very good, but I can't find kind of this code for the ticks at the colorbar.

Would be really nice if someone's out there who can help me ;)

Answer 1

[Marc Jakobi]

Changing the TickLabelInterpreter won't make it match the latex serif roman numbering style, which is what I assume you want to do. However, you can change the FontName property.

A good set of fonts that match the LaTeX fonts can be downloaded here: Computer Modern Unicode fonts

You will need 7zip to unpack the archive and then you will have to install a font of your choice (in Windows, double-click on the font to open it and then install). Then restart Matlab.

An example for changing the colorbar and axes font would be:

ax = axes;
c = colorbar;
ax.FontName = 'CMU Serif Extra'; %installation file: cmunsl.ttf
c.FontName = 'CMU Serif Extra';

[Marc Jakobi]

It seems the url didn't post properly. Here it is again: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/

[Walter Roberson]

You had an extra space before the '>' and that messed up posting of the URL.

[Marc Jakobi]

Cheers!

[Pavaman]

This answer is not great because when printing to a vector file format such as eps, emf or pdf, only a select set of fonts are permissible. It will default to one of these when printing. See here .

Answer 2

[Massimo Zanetti]

Set TickLabelInterpreter property to 'latex'

[Pavaman]

Thanks for this answer. It saved me. I was using the colorbar Label Interpreter property and trying to change that to no avail. the TickLabelInterpreter property was the one I was looking for. An hour of MATLAB answers scouring led me to here.

[Chien-Han Su]

This saves me too! Thanks!

Answer 3

[Mehedi Hassan]

this will set your colorbar ticks to latex font:

c = colorbar;
set(c,'TickLabelInterpreter','latex')

Answer 4

[Lukas Bathelt]

Thanks for the fast answers guys. With your help it's working now.

@ Massimo Zanetti: I tried the TickLabelInterpreter before, but it didn't work.

[Marc Jakobi]

No problem. If one of the answers solved your problem, would you please accept it as an answer?