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.


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