Admins can customize the primary and secondary color palettes Invoca draws from when generating charts.
You can change the color palettes Invoca uses to build charts across your account. We suggest sticking with the default settings, but you can create your own palette if done carefully.
Select the chart color palettes
- Navigate to the Admin Console by clicking the Admin tab in the top navigation bar, then select Style Customization from the side navigation. If this option isn’t available, contact Invoca Support to enable it.
- Navigate to the Chart Color Palettes section at the bottom of the Style Customization page.
- Click a color in the primary color palette and use the color menu (or a Hex value) to choose a new color. All colors in the primary palette are used before any from the secondary palette, so the primary palette usually consists of primary colors.
- Click a color in the secondary color palette and choose a new color the same way. Secondary palette colors are used only after the primary palette is exhausted.
- Click Reset in the upper-right of the section to restore the default palettes.
Disable color rotation
You can disable color rotation for single-color charts. With color rotation disabled, Invoca generates single-color charts using your palette’s colors in order, left to right. With it enabled, Invoca picks the color for single-color charts randomly.
How chart colors work
Invoca’s color palette follows a standard format of Primary, Lightest, Light, Dark, and Darkest shade rows across up to 8 primary colors.
Standard color algorithm: if a chart needs only one color, Invoca selects a primary color depending on whether color rotation is enabled. If it needs more than one color, Invoca divides the total number of colors required by the number of primary colors to determine how many shades of each color to use.
Primary color count depends on the total colors required: 1 needs 1 primary; 2–8 need 4; 9–15 need 5; 16–24 need 6; 25–35 need 7; 36+ need 8.
Rainbow mode: some chart types cycle through all primary colors first, then their shades, instead of using the default allocation.
Chart-specific color algorithms: Column, Stacked Column, Pie, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line Column, Area, and Stacked Area use the standard algorithm in default mode. Line, KPI, and Bubble use rainbow mode. Heatmap uses a color range based on Primary 2; Treemap uses a range based on Primary 1. Line Stacked Column applies color to the line before the columns. Scatter and Sankey choose colors based on the order of points in the data response (Sankey colors can’t be overridden). Geo Heatmap uses a specific lilac with no overrides. Geo Area uses a yellow-to-red gradient built around a selected color. Candlestick defaults up/down colors to green/red, overridable manually. Pareto uses the cumulative line as the first color and the active Measure as the second.
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Last modified on September 23, 2026
