MATLAB Function Reference Volume 1: A - E - Bad Request

Axes Properties
FontName A name such as Courier or the string FixedWidth
Font family name. The font family name specifying the font to use for axes
labels. To display and print properly, FontName must be a font that your system
supports. Note that the x-, y-, and z-axis labels do not display in a new font until
you manually reset them (by setting the XLabel, YLabel, and ZLabel properties
or by using the xlabel, ylabel,orzlabel command). Tick mark labels change
immediately.
Specifying a Fixed-Width Font
If you want an axes to use a fixed-width font that looks good in any locale, you
should set FontName to the string FixedWidth:
set(axes_handle,'FontName','FixedWidth')
This eliminates the need to hardcode the name of a fixed-width font, which may
not display text properly on systems that do not use ASCII character encoding
(such as in Japan where multibyte character sets are used). A properly written
MATLAB application that needs to use a fixed-width font should set FontName
to FixedWidth (note that this string is case sensitive) and rely on
FixedWidthFontName to be set correctly in the end-user’s environment.
End users can adapt a MATLAB application to different locales or personal
environments by setting the root FixedWidthFontName property to the
appropriate value for that locale from startup.m.
Note that setting the root FixedWidthFontName property causes an immediate
update of the display to use the new font.
FontSize Font size specified in FontUnits
Font size. An integer specifying the font size to use for axes labels and titles, in
units determined by the FontUnits property. The default point size is 12. The
x-, y-, and z-axis text labels do not display in a new font size until you manually
reset them (by setting the XLabel, YLabel,orZLabel properties or by using the
xlabel, ylabel, or zlabel command). Tick mark labels change immediately.
FontUnits {points} | normalized | inches |
centimeters | pixels
Units used to interpret the FontSize property. When set to normalized,
MATLAB interprets the value of FontSize as a fraction of the height of the
axes. For example, a normalized FontSize of 0.1 sets the text characters to a
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