Default Matlab Plot Colors
I try to be consistent in my thesis and use the same colors everywhere. Since version 2014b, Matlab has a nice color palette. The RGB values and hex-values for the colors can be output using:
colors = get(0, 'defaultAxesColorOrder');
rgbs = round(256*colors);
hexes = num2str(rgbs, '%02X')
This returns the following values (nicefied into a table by hand):
R G B hex name
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0 114 190 0072BE blue
218 83 25 DA5319 red/orange
238 178 32 EEB220 yellow
126 47 142 7E2F8E purple
119 173 48 77AD30 green
77 191 239 4DBFEF light blue
163 20 47 A3142F dark red
Since color names are highly debatable, here are the colors, shown from left to right in the default Matlab color order:
If these don't work out, I find that paletton often helps me in finding nice, harmonizing colors.