Chart palettes

Chart palettes control the colors used in chart visualizations across workbooks and dashboards. Cube ships with a set of built-in palettes, and you can also define your own custom palettes — for example, to match your company brand — and reuse them on any chart in the account.

Custom palettes are managed centrally and are available across every deployment in the account.

Requirements

Custom chart palettes are managed under the Manage chart palettes permission. The built-in Admin role has this permission by default; for other users, grant the Manage chart palettes global permission via a custom role.

Browse palettes

Go to Admin → Customization → Chart Palettes to see every palette available in your account. The list combines:

• Built-in palettes shipped with Cube — these can be used in charts but cannot be edited or deleted.
• Custom palettes created in your account — these can be edited, renamed, and deleted.

Each row shows the palette name and a preview of its colors.

Create a custom palette

1. Go to Admin → Customization → Chart Palettes.
2. Click Add palette.
3. Give the palette a Name and provide its colors as a comma-separated list of hex codes (for example, #1F77B4, #FF7F0E, #2CA02C).
4. Click Save.

The new palette appears in the list immediately and becomes selectable in the chart styling controls.

Edit a custom palette

1. Go to Admin → Customization → Chart Palettes.
2. Click the row action on the palette you want to change and select Edit.
3. Update the name or colors and click Save.

Existing charts that use the palette pick up the new colors automatically.

Delete a custom palette

1. Go to Admin → Customization → Chart Palettes.
2. Click the row action on the palette you want to remove and select Delete.

Charts that were using the deleted palette fall back to the built-in Default palette.

Apply a palette to a chart

Palettes are applied per chart from the chart's styling controls:

1. Open a workbook and select a chart.
2. Open the Style panel for the chart.
3. Use the Palette dropdown to pick a built-in or custom palette.

The dropdown shows palettes that match the chart's color encoding:

• Discrete palettes appear when the color encoding is categorical (for example, color by status or category).
• Continuous palettes appear when the color encoding is quantitative or temporal (for example, color by total_sale_price or created_at).

If no palette is explicitly selected, charts use the built-in Default palette.