Change Colour Schemes

Colour schemes provide ways to identify and highlight metrics and attributes on a visual using colour. Colour schemes are specified for visuals in different ways, based on the visual type.

• The colours on standard bar charts, heat maps, KPI charts, U.S. region maps, world country maps, packed bubble charts, tree maps, and word cloud charts are based on the colour metric selected for the visual. Colours can be changed using the Colour sidebar.
• The colour of multiple metric bar and multiple-metric line charts are based on the y-axis metric you have selected. Colours can be changed using the Colour sidebar.
• Visual colours are not available for map marker charts, pivot tables, and tables of raw data.
• For all other visuals (box plots, donut charts, floating bubble charts, line-trend attribute charts, pie charts, and scatter plot charts), the visual colours are based on an x-axis Group field you have selected. Colours can be changed using the Colour sidebar.

Colour palettes for your Insights environment are defined using themes. In addition, the default colour palette used for visuals and for specific visual styles is defined using themes.

To access the Colour sidebar for a visual:

1. Select the visual in the Visual Gallery or on a dashboard.
2. Select Settings on the visual drop-down menu to access the sidebar menu for the visual. Then select on the sidebar menu.
   
   
3. Make changes as needed. For details about the colour options, refer to the description of the specific visual style used by the visual.
4. If you want to use the palette specified by the theme defined for the environment, select the Inherit from theme checkbox. The colours specified in the theme activated for the Insights environment and for this visual style will be used and will override other palette settings you might have specified on the Colour sidebar.