Use default linecolor as textcolor

Question

Gnuplot has some default color for lines.

How can I call those colors with textcolor? What are their name/identifier?

I try to do something like this:

set ylabel 'A' textcolor 'linecolor1'
set ylabel 'B' textcolor 'linecolor2'

I'm aware of this, but I want to avoid extracting the values by myself and call their identifier instead.

Answer 1

Check help colorspec. I guess you are looking for something like this:

Code:

### linecolors as textcolors
reset session

set label 1 at graph 0.2, 0.6 "Linecolor 1" tc lt 1
set label 2 at graph 0.2, 0.7 "Linecolor 2" tc lt 2
set label 3 at graph 0.2, 0.8 "Linecolor 3" tc lt 3
set label 4 at graph 0.2, 0.9 "Linecolor 4" tc lt 4
set key top left
plot x, 2*x, 3*x, 4*x

### end of code

Result: