Chart Colours (Theme).

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The Theme button in your dashboard bar (top left) lets you customise your chart colours to match your brand colours or survey theme (e.g. All black, Coles red, Woolworths green).

This affects:

the column colours in your tables,
the bar colours in grouped bar and stacked bar charts,
the line colours in line and spider charts, and
the area colours in stacked area charts.

View theme vs. Survey theme

To change the colour theme across all views in your dashboard, switch to the "Survey" tab in your Theme menu. To change the colour theme at the individual view level, make sure you're in the "View" tab. The View Theme will always supersede the Survey Theme.

By default, the View theme is set to "Use survey theme" so all the views in your dashboard align with your survey's colour theme. Likewise, the Survey theme is set by default to "Use account theme" so all the surveys in your account use the same colour theme.

You can of course change either of these to another theme in the dropdown.

Notes: only the "Custom" theme and themes below the dotted line are editable.

Themes below the dotted line are saved at the account level, so any changes you make to a theme in one survey or view will be applied across your entire account in any other survey or view where that theme is being used.

However, the "Custom" theme above the dotted line will only be applied in that particular view (if in View tab) or survey (if in Survey tab) and won't be visible in other views or surveys.

Edit themes

Within your theme, you can...

switch to a different colour theme (in dropdown), e.g. "Retailers" or "Custom"
edit or duplicate an existing theme
create a new colour theme from scratch

Edit Theme

Whether you pick "Custom" theme, or click 'edit', 'duplicate' or 'new' theme, then within your 'Standard Palette' or 'Linear Palette':

click the '+' button to add a new colour
click on an existing colour to edit it.

Then...

Pick the desired colour in the rainbow spectrum on the right.
Pick the desired gradient of that colour in the colour square on the left.
- top-right of square matches selected colour in spectrum
- left are lighter shades of that colour (to white)
- down are darker shades (to black)

Input the colour hex code if you know it (e.g. #16900F). The hex code will automatically pick:
1. the colour in the spectrum (e.g. green) and
2. the gradient in the square (e.g. ~40% down/darker, ~10% left/lighter).

Finally, name your theme, e.g. 'Retailers', then click 'Done' to apply palette, then click 'Save' to lock in the changes OR refresh your dashboard to undo changes.

Standard vs. Linear Palette

Currently,

the standard palette is applied to all questions except matrix.
the linear palette is applied to matrix questions.

Choice and scale questions however will switch to a linear palette if the platform detects scale type choices in the columns.

You can't currently pick between standard or linear palette for a particular view, but future updates will allow this.

Standard Palette

The standard palette has a 1 for 1 relationship with the colours in your table & chart, i.e.

the 1st colour (black) in your palette matches the 1st column in your table (All)
the 2nd colour (red) matches the 2nd column in table (Coles) and 2nd bars in chart
the 3rd colour (green) in order matches the 3rd column (Wooloworths) and 3rd bars.

If your standard palette runs out of colours, it will simply repeat them. E.g. if your table has 5 columns but your theme has 3 colours, it will go 1. black, 2. red, 3. green, 4. black, 5. red

You can't yet pick any colour in your theme for a column, it's always locked to the corresponding colour in order.

The charts above use the standard palette if you want an example.

Linear Palette

The linear palette has a first and last relationship with the colours in your table columns.

The first column in your table (Not at all) matches the 1st colour (red)
The last column in your table (Extremely) matches the last colour (green)
The middle column (Moderately) aligns with the middle colour (yellow)
The in-between columns are automatically coloured in to match the gradients between the previous and next colours (e.g. reddish yellow for 'A little' and yellowish green for 'Very')

Example:

You should typically have a minimum of 2 (e.g. red, green) but a maximum of 3 colours (e.g. red, yellow, green) in your linear palette. An independent colour for independent choices in scales (e.g. grey or black for n/a or don't know) is not yet available.

A typical linear palette is red-green or red-yellow-green, but you're not limited to this. E.g. if your brand colours are per the standard palette below and you can't deviate from this colour scheme in any way (i.e. no red, yellow, or green allowed), then your linear palette could use the dark blue > mid blue > light blue colours (or vice versa) or even the dark grey > mid grey > light grey colours as that still shows a linear gradient pattern while being within the acceptable colour scheme.