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"Chart Styles" is an often requested feature to easily assign charts a certain set of styles (colours/pattern of data representation, line width, background colour, charting background, type of legend a.o) to a chart. This is necessary if an author wants to create consistent charts in a publication or if a document aims at different publication format (e.g. coloured charts for online publications, but black&white for print).
See Also
How to Choose Between a Bar Chart and Pie ChartBest Types of Charts and Graphs for Data Visualization44 Types of Graphs & Charts [& How to Choose the Best One]7 Best Flutter Charts for Visualizing Income and ExpenditureRelated issues and requirements
- FORMATTING: enhancement: please add "chart styles" to the styles of Calc: tdf#62925.
- Chart: Add greyscale mode to chart colours / ability to convert coloured charts to greyscale: tdf#39097.
- Providing chart styles / color presets tdf#90490.
- Add ability to change the default chart type: tdf#64886.
- Allow to use Draw shape styles to format shapes drawn inside charts. There is a similar issue regarding Major Feature Improvements for LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice of the OSB Alliance (Use Case 3: Implement styles in all content elements of Writer). Moreover, it would be interesting to manage the components of a chart (lines, textboxes, etc) through shape styles.
Progress
- There is currently no development in the area of chart styles.
Competitive Analysis
- Microsoft Excel: Excel supports a certain given set of chart styles.
Excel 2010 chart styles
- Stata: The statistical software Stata supports chart styles (called "graph schemes") for several target formats, e.g. coloured charts, monochrome charts, the Economist, Stata Journal)
- Stata Schemes Intro (PDF with examples)
- Making a color scheme for graphs in Stata
- Example of a user-made scheme. Users can create and contribute own graph schemes using a certain mark-up language.
Stata graph schemes
- Gnumeric supports user styles for charts.
Gnumeric user styles for charts
