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Global Chart Options define the default appearance and behaviour of charts across your Analytics app. These settings apply to all charts by default. Where available, you can override them for individual charts. **To open the global chart options, press the cogwheel in the top right of your analytics app!** ### Change the overall look and feel Use the **Theme and Palette** settings to control the visual style of your Analytics app. * **Choose a chart style** → **Base theme**\ Select the overall chart style, such as light, dark, material, vivid, or spreadsheet-inspired. * **Use your own colours and fonts** → **Custom palette and font overrides**\ Override the colours and fonts provided by the selected base theme. * **Change chart series colours** → **Palette fills**\ Enter a comma-separated list of colours for bars, lines, pie segments, and other chart series. * **Change chart outline colours** → **Palette strokes**\ Enter a comma-separated list of colours used for chart series outlines. * **Change the default font** → **Font family**\ Set the typeface used for chart titles, subtitles, footnotes, and other chart text. * **Change the default text size** → **Base font size**\ Set the default font size used throughout charts. * **Use a Google Font** → **Load Google Fonts**\ Load the selected Google Font when it isn't available on the viewer's device. * **Change the dashboard background** → **Canvas background colour**\ Set the background colour of the dashboard canvas. * **Use an image as the dashboard background** → **Canvas background image URL**\ Display an image behind the dashboard content. When an image is set, it takes precedence over the canvas background colour. * **Round chart and dashboard corners** → **Corner radius**\ Control how rounded the corners of dashboard and chart tiles appear. *** ### Change how charts behave Use the **Formatting Defaults** to control common chart interactions and presentation. * **Show values on hover** → **Tooltips**\ Show or hide contextual values when viewers hover over a chart. * **Animate data changes** → **Animations**\ Enable or disable transitions when chart data loads or changes. * **Navigate through time-series data** → **Navigator**\ Enable the navigation control on supported time-series charts. * **Allow viewers to zoom** → **Zoom interactions**\ Enable zooming on supported charts. * **Add space inside charts** → **Padding**\ Set the space between chart content and its edges for the top, right, bottom, and left sides. *** ### Change the appearance of chart tiles Use the tile settings to control how charts sit on the dashboard canvas. * **Change the tile background** → **Tile background**\ Set the background colour of chart tiles. * **Make tile backgrounds transparent** → **Tile background opacity**\ Control the transparency of tile backgrounds. Set the value to `0` for a fully transparent background. * **Change the tile border colour** → **Tile border colour**\ Set the outline colour of chart tiles. * **Change the tile border thickness** → **Tile border width**\ Set the width of chart tile borders. * **Add or remove tile shadows** → **Tile shadow**\ Show or hide the shadow around chart tiles. *** ### Change the dashboard layout Use **Dashboard Layout** settings to control the size, grid, and positioning of your dashboard content. * **Make the dashboard responsive or fixed-size** → **Dashboard size**\ Choose between an automatically sized responsive canvas and a fixed-size canvas. * **Set exact dashboard dimensions** → **Fixed width and height**\ Set the canvas dimensions in pixels when using a fixed-size dashboard. * **Control content outside the canvas** → **Canvas overflow**\ Allow content outside the canvas to scroll or hide it. * **Change the space between tiles** → **Grid margin horizontal and vertical**\ Set the horizontal and vertical spacing between visual tiles. * **Change the number of layout columns** → **Grid columns**\ Set the number of columns available for positioning and sizing visual tiles. * **Change the height of layout rows** → **Grid row height**\ Set the height of each row in the dashboard grid. * **Show the layout grid while editing** → **Show gridlines**\ Display gridlines to help position content. Gridlines are only visible while editing and are not shown to viewers. *** ### Set titles across all charts Use **Titles** when you want charts to share the same title or subtitle. * **Use the same title on every chart** → **Title**\ Enter a title to apply it to all charts. Leave this blank to use each chart's individual title. * **Use the same subtitle on every chart** → **Subtitle**\ Enter a subtitle to apply it across all charts. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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