Design → Palette
Controls the colours assigned to the chart’s series, or to the slices of a pie or donut chart. A palette is a named InDesign colour group.
Select Palette
- Chart Palette: the colour group applied to the chart. Series or slices are coloured by cycling through its swatches. Click ↺ to reread the colour groups from the document.
- Preview Current Chart Palette: shows one colour patch per series or slice, so you can see which colour each one gets.
To give a single series a different colour, use Override color on Design → Series → Lines.
Convert Palette to Color Group
Adds the selected palette to the document as a new InDesign colour group and assigns it to the chart.
- Modification
- Copy Regular Palette: adds the palette as it is.
- Create Gradient Palette: creates colours that blend smoothly from the palette’s first to its last swatch, one for each series or slice.
- Create Tint/Shade Palette: creates lighter and darker variations of the palette’s colours.
- Preview New Chart Palette: shows the colours that will be created.
- New Color Group Name: the name of the new colour group.
- Number of Colors, Darken Steps, Lighten Steps, Strength:
Click Create & Assign Color Group to add the colour group to the document and use it for the chart.