August 1, 2026
Everyone that uses MATLAB knows this is its usual colorbar:
Some tweaks can be done to it as the following, which by the way, was chosen as the pick of the weak back in 2011:
To the best of my knowledge, MATLAB does not provide many additional options for customizing the colorbar directly, but would you believe the following is MATLAB’s colorbar?
Believe me. This is MATLAB! And you can get these colorbar looks thanks to the niceColorbar toolbox just released on matlabcentral: