Chart styles

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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).

Related 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.
  • Microsoft Excel 2007 to 2013, How to Create a Pie Chart in Excel: Chart Styles
  • Microsoft Excel 2007 to 2013, How to Create a Pie Chart in Excel: Chart Styles and Chart Layouts

Excel 2010 chart styles

Excel 2010 legend 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