I searched in many places and didn't find a way to do what I would like to achieve using MATLAB which is this: putting the keys (text labels) to the left of the color lines in the legend in MATLAB.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PlOtQ.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PlOtQ.png)

I would like to achieve this result that is the default result using gnuplot for instance (cf link above) and that is apparently doable using MATLAB's cousin Octave (see [Octave's `legend`](http://octave.sourceforge.net/octave/function/legend.html)) that has an option to do `legend("left")` that "place[s] label text to the left of the keys."

Is it possible to do so using MATLAB?