Chart styles

"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:.
 * Chart: Add greyscale mode to chart colours / ability to convert coloured charts to greyscale:.
 * Providing chart styles / color presets.
 * Add ability to change the default chart type:.
 * 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






 * 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.
 * Gnumeric supports user styles for charts.