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Apptio Community Member posted Tue October 05, 2021 02:53 AM
Is it possible to change value label color on bar charts
I believe black is easier to see
So instead of the grey color showing  1 073 in the print screen below... I would like 1 073 in black color (instead of grey)
The other values/labels should bee the same... black ;-)

Note: I don't want to change the bar color... but the label
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Greetings, @Frode Staveland Nilsen!  Yes, right-click on the chart and go to Properties, then look at the Chart section and assign a color there. 

I tried it without "1=" and it didn't work, so you'd need that in there.  


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Also, if you're in a pie chart, I recently learned you can apply multiple colors like this ... :-)


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You can also do it with the field content names. In the same dialog box:
Biggest=BLACK; Second=GREEN; etc.
As @JENNY FRANKLIN shows, you can also use HEX codes for the colors. I usually stick to color names, as I tend to limit bars or columns to 5 or 6 max.—and cannot remember codes beyond FFFFFF or 000000 😜😎👀🤷‍♂️ Once I created a color palette in coolors.co, so that the combination would be pleasing (to my taste).
P.S. I didn't know about the ordinals. Thanks!!!!

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@Guillermo Cuadrado Thank you so much for adding that - had no idea you could do it the other way - and especially love the site​​ that gives you theme colors!  😵🧡🙌🤩🐱‍👤  ... and same here - I cannot remember all those codes - I always have to look them up or use another program with an eye dropper to find the color code 😝
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