How to create hatched fill pattern histograms?

I have to create a plot with two histograms, both normalized through probability, to represent the distribution of an index S in two differenti conditions (a) and (b).

For a better visibility, I would like to add a hatched fill pattern to one of them. Here below there is how the plot looks like without the pattern.

Answer 1

[Setsuna Yuuki.]

hello.

You can try with the function in this url:

https://es.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/1736-hatched-fill-patterns

this is the result:

[Alessandro Giacetti]

How did you manage to make it work for two histograms? Because it did not work with the usual command 'hold on'.

[Setsuna Yuuki.]

I use a example of: https://es.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.chart.primitive.histogram.html

Search Plot Multiple Histograms

[Alessandro Giacetti]

So first you created h1 and h2 like in the example. Then you used the function "applyhatch" specifing h1 and h2 in the input of "applyhatch"?

[Setsuna Yuuki.]

%Example of mathworks
x = randn(2000,1);
y = 1 + randn(5000,1);
h1 = histogram(x);
hold on
h2 = histogram(y);
h1.Normalization = 'probability';
h1.BinWidth = 0.25;
h2.Normalization = 'probability';
h2.BinWidth = 0.25;
%Applyhatch
applyhatch(gcf,'\x');  %The format for PATTERNS can be
%a string of the characters '/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', '.'

[Alessandro Giacetti]

Great. It works nicely once you select a suitable couple of patterns to improve the quallity of visualization. The only issue left is that once the second figure is produced, which is the one with the patterns, I can not find a way to increase the axes fontsize and box width, even opening the 'Property Inspector' window.

[Setsuna Yuuki.]

If you try it before applying the Applyhatch,maybe it will work.