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title: "Color Procedures"
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This guide contains tips on customizing your chart colors.

## Custom Series Colors

The procedure below demonstrates how to select custom chart colors for a dimension field. This can be used to highlight each demographic series with a different color of your choice.

1. Select your report data, and navigate to the **Charts** page.
  
2. Select a chart that supports color. For our example, we will use a basic line chart. (To select a chart, expand the chart selection icon on the right side and click on a chart type.)
  
3. After selecting your axes fields, drag a dimension field to the color textbox.
  
4. The chart will be colour-coded according to the dimension field series. But you can change this to specify which colors should be applied.
5. Expand the menu of the color field, click **Color** and choose the **Default** type (this is the default selection). You can also use these settings to apply the *reference code* colours if they have been defined in the report for that field, or *monochrome* to define a color scheme with different shades of the same color.
  
6. Next open the correct settings by either clicking on the **Chart Series** settings icon, or expanding the color field menu and selecting the **Settings** option.
  
7. When at the settings page, click on the **+ Populate Series** button on the left side panel. This will populate the panel with all the dimension series. (Note: you can also add an individual dimension series by using the **+ Add Series** button, provided the added series exists as the field’s value.)
  
8. Select a series which you want to assign a custom color to; its details will appear on the form in the right side of the settings page.
9. Click on the **Style** dropdown, and choose **Solid**.
10. Enable the **Custom Color** toggle, and when the **Color** setting field appears, select a color to be applied to that series.
  
11. You can repeat these steps for other series, and assign them their own colors.