Task-focused techniques for customizing, composing, and exporting charts. See Examples to choose a chart type first, or Guides for concepts that span several APIs.

Annotations and labels

Call out values, ranges, trends, and individual observations.

• Reference Line
• Vertical Reference Line
• Reference Band
• Confidence Band
• Point Marker
• Arrow Annotation
• Annotation Colors
• Data Labels
• Point Labels
• Mathematical Labels

Axes, scales, and orientation

Control domains, axis furniture, ordering, and chart direction.

• Log Scale (X-Axis)
• Log Scale (Y-Axis)
• Indexed-to-100 Comparison
• Percent Stacked Bar
• Step Interpolation
• Sorted Bars
• Horizontal Bar
• Horizontal Grouped Bar
• Horizontal Stacked Bar
• Horizontal Lollipop
• Horizontal Box
• Horizontal Violin
• Horizontal Beeswarm
• Despine
• Full Axis Box
• Axes Through Zero
• Bar Zero Baseline
• Compact Axis Chrome
• Custom Margins
• Margin Buffer
• Data Label Margin

Color and accessibility

Encode values with color and keep charts legible across contexts.

• Color by Category
• Color by Continuous Variable
• Color Map
• Diverging Color Scale
• Diverging Bar (Positive/Negative Color)
• Custom Diverging Colors
• Center a Diverging Scale on Zero
• One Color Scale Across Two Charts
• One Color Per Category Across Two Charts
• Black-and-White Multi-Series
• High-Contrast Theme
• Print-Safe (Grayscale) Theme
• Dark Theme
• Minimal Theme
• SVG Accessibility

Layout, facets, and layers

Combine plots, coordinate scales, and explain layered series.

• Combo Chart (Shared Axis)
• Bar-and-Line Combo
• Dual Y-Axis
• Layer Legend
• Isolines Over a Filled Field
• Facets
• Shared Facet Scale

Statistics and uncertainty

Show estimates, uncertainty, distributions, and dense relationships.

• Best-Fit Trend Line
• Error Bars
• Asymmetric Error Bars
• Error Bars on a Line
• Error Bar Cap Width
• Bubble Size
• Bubble Size Range
• Comparing Distributions (KDE + Rug)
• Narrow Violins
• Violin Bandwidth
• Scale Violin Width by Count
• Ridgeline Overlap
• Dense Corrplot

Export and presentation

Tune chart appearance and produce output for its destination.

• Multi-Format Export
• High-DPI Export
• Custom Typography
• Subtitle & Axis Title Styling
• Bold Points
• Smoothed Line
• Legend Sizing
• Continuous Legend Size
• Bullet Styling
• Half-Circle Gauge
• Effect Scatter Halo
• Radar Fill Alpha
• Radial Bar Styling
• Sankey Node Width
• Waterfall Colors

External and custom data

Use dataframes, numeric types, Python arrays, and custom Mojo containers.

• Plot Named Columns of a DataFrame
• Plot a Long-Form DataFrame
• Facet a DataFrame by a Column
• Grouped DataFrame Facets
• Numeric Types
• NumPy and pandas Data
• Custom Numeric Container
• Custom Categorical Container

End-to-end workflows

Whole analyses, from data to figure, that check what they claim.

• Workflow: A Time Series with an Outage
• Workflow: Grouped Estimates with Their Sample Counts
• Workflow: Comparing Distributions
• Workflow: A Scatter with Marginals
• Workflow: A Publication Figure