How to make longer and thicker ticks in the colorbar?

How to make longer and thicker ticks in the colorbar?

Answer 1

[Scott MacKenzie]

Not sure the purpose, but this looks like what you're asking for...

y = randi(10,1,5);

tiledlayout('flow');

nexttile;
bar(y);
colorbar;

nexttile;
bar(y);
h = colorbar;
h.TickLength = .05; % default is 0.01
h.LineWidth = 1; % default is 0.5

[Sim]

thanks a lot! Exactly those two - I did not find them in the matlab docuemntation..