One can suppress a legend entry for a line object h by executing h.HandleVisibility='off' or h.Annotation.LegendInformation.IconDisplayStyle='off'. However, both actions also prevent the curve from appearing in Matlab's Plot Browser user interface, and thus display of the curve cannot be interactively toggled.

Is there any way to suppress a legend entry for a given curve without also removing the ability to toggle display of that curve in the Plot Browser user interface? 

Answers: 

You can also turn off handle visibility. This is way easier than having to set every plot as h1 = ...

Example: 

x1 = randperm(10); y = randperm(10); x2 = randperm(10); plot(x1, y, '-', 'Color', 'black', 'HandleVisibility', 'off') hold on plot(x2, y, '-', 'Color', 'green', 'DisplayName', 'Put This In Legend') lgd = legend; set(lgd, 'Location', 'best')