How to avoid overlapping plot labels in MATLAB?

Question

I am trying to label my horizontal (constant y-axis) plot lines in MATLAB. However, some y-lines overlap and therefore their labels also overlap as shown:

'Min' and 'Max' lines overlap so their labels overlap

How may I separate these labels? I am simply using the yline function in MATLAB for the horizontal lines.

ymax = 0;
ymin = 0;
yline([ymax,ymin],'-',{'Max','Min'})
set(gca,'ylim',[-10,100])

Cris Luengo · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-16 04:26:44Z

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One approach could be to set the LabelVerticalAlignment property for one of the two lines to 'bottom', as follows:

ymax = 0;
ymin = 0;
yline(ymax,'-','Max')
yline(ymin,'-','Min','LabelVerticalAlignment','bottom')
set(gca,'ylim',[-10,100])

This property can be set to 'top' (default), 'middle' or 'bottom'.

There is also a LabelHorizontalAlignment, which can be set to 'right' (default), 'left' or 'center'.

answered Jun 16, 2021 at 4:26

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