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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
Using Chart Layouts to Enhance your Charts in PowerPointHow To Choose the Best Chart Type To Visualize Your DataFormatting ChartsComprehensive Guide to the Different Types of Charts in MS Excel - United KingdomRelated 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
