Add title - MATLAB title (2024)

Create a figure and display a title in the current axes.

plot((1:10).^2)title('My Title')

You also can call title with a function that returns text. For example, the date function returns text with today's date.

title(date)

MATLAB® sets the output of date as the axes title.

Create a plot. Then create a title and a subtitle by calling the title function with two character vectors as arguments. Use the 'Color' name-value pair argument to customize the color for both lines of text. Specify two return arguments to store the text objects for the title and subtitle.

plot([0 1])[t,s] = title('Straight Line','Slope = 1, y-Intercept = 0',... 'Color','blue');

Change the font size for the title to 16, and change the font angle for the subtitle to 'italic'.

t.FontSize = 16;s.FontAngle = 'italic';

Include the value of variable c in a title.

figureplot((1:10).^2)f = 70;c = (f-32)/1.8;title(['Temperature is ',num2str(c),' C'])

Use the color modifier \color to change the color of characters following it from the previous color.

plot((1:10).^2)title(['\fontsize{16}black {\color{magenta}magenta '...'\color[rgb]{0 .5 .5}teal \color{red}red} black again'])

Create a plot, and define t as a character vector that includes LaTeX markup. Surround the markup with dollar signs ($). Then pass t to the title function, and set the Interpreter property to 'latex'.

x = 0:0.1:10;y = sin(x);dy = cos(x);plot(x,y,x,dy);t = '$sin(x)$ and $\frac{d}{dx}sin(x)$';title(t,'interpreter','latex')

Use the Name,Value pair 'Color','m' to set the color of the title to magenta.

figureplot((1:10).^2)title('Case number # 3','Color', 'm')

Use TeX markup to include Greek symbols in a title.

t = (0:0.01:0.2);y = exp(-25*t);figureplot(t,y)title('y = \ite^{\lambda t}','Color','b')

The 'Interpreter' property must be 'tex' (the default).

figureplot((1:10).^2)title('\alpha^2 and X_1')

The superscript character, "^", and the subscript character, "_", modify the character or substring defined in braces immediately following.

Create a multiline title using a multiline cell array.

figureplot((1:10).^2)title({'First line';'Second line'})

Set the Interpreter property as 'none' so that the text X_1 is displayed in the figure as typed, without making 1 a subscript of X.

plot((1:10).^2)title('X_1','Interpreter','none')

Starting in R2019b, you can display a tiling of plots using the tiledlayout and nexttile functions. Call the tiledlayout function to create a 2-by-1 tiled chart layout. Call the nexttile function to create the axes objects ax1 and ax2. Then plot data into each axes.

tiledlayout(2,1)ax1 = nexttile;plot(ax1,(1:10).^2)ax2 = nexttile;plot(ax2,(1:10).^3)

Add a title to each axes by passing ax1 and ax2 to the title function.

title(ax1,'Top Plot')title(ax2,'Bottom Plot')

Add a title to a plot and return the text object.

plot((1:10).^2)t = title('My Title');

Set the color of the title to red. Use dot notation to set properties.

t.Color = 'red';

Create a plot with a title. Get the current axes, and then align the title to the left edge of the plot box by setting the TitleHorizontalAlignment property of the axes to 'left'.

plot([0 2],[1 5])title('Straight Line')ax = gca;ax.TitleHorizontalAlignment = 'left';

Center the title setting the TitleHorizontalAlignment property on the axes to 'center'.

ax.TitleHorizontalAlignment = 'center';

t — Object used for title
text object | legend text object

s — Object used for subtitle
text object

Object used for the subtitle, returned as a text object. Use this text object to modify properties of the subtitle after creating it. For a list of text object properties, see Text Properties. You also can access the subtitle through the Subtitle property of the axes object.