How to change color of lines on legend?

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Is there any way to change the color of lines in the legend AFTER plotting the graph(like using Edit\axes properties)?
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 14 Jul 2018
You could record the handle of the first of each type, and then pass that vector of handles as the first argument to legend().
Or you could do something like
L(1) = plot(nan, nan, 'b-');
L(2) = plot(nan, nan, 'r--');
legend(L, {'first case', 'second case'})
Mahdi Torabi
Mahdi Torabi on 14 Jul 2018
Thank you so much. This solved the problem.

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Mahdi Torabi
Mahdi Torabi on 14 Jul 2018
Edited: Matt J on 14 Jul 2018
According to the Walter answer on above my problem solved easily using :
L(1) = plot(nan, nan, 'b-');
L(2) = plot(nan, nan, 'r--');
legend(L, {'first case', 'second case'})
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Matt J
Matt J on 14 Jul 2018
This gives an error,
Error using legend>process_inputs (line 554)
Invalid argument. Type 'help legend' for more information.
Error in legend>make_legend (line 306)
[autoupdate,orient,location,position,children,listen,strings,propargs] = process_inputs(ha,argin); %#ok
Error in legend (line 259)
make_legend(ha,args(arg:end),version);
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 15 Jul 2018
Turns out you just need
hold on
to be in effect, as otherwise the second plot() clears the axes.

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Matt J
Matt J on 14 Jul 2018
Edited: Matt J on 14 Jul 2018
This might be what Walter meant,
t=linspace(0,1,10);
L(1:2) = plot(t,exp(-t), 'r--',nan,nan,'k--');hold on
L(3:4) = plot(t,1-exp(-t), 'g^-',nan,nan,'m^-'); hold off
legend(L([2,4]), 'Red','Green')
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Luiz Bacelar
Luiz Bacelar on 1 May 2020
how to solve this? I have similar problem
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 1 May 2020
plot(nan,nan) with appropriate line style and color, once for each different thing you want to appear in the legend, recording the handle that is returned. Then when you call legend(), pass that array of handles in as the first parameter to legend()

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