Chart Prompts

1,337 ways to dress a line or bar chart, 669 light and 668 dark. Open any chart to see it full size and copy a prompt that gives your own chart the same look.

Every chart uses illustrative data. The prompts work with any coding agent and any charting library; they describe colors, type, spacing and marks precisely enough to reproduce each look.

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Die Line bar chart, light theme: Carton blanks on kraft board with black cut lines and dashed red folds.

Die Line

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Carton blanks on kraft board with black cut lines and dashed red folds.

  • Kraft board#D8C3A0
  • Front panel#EADCC0
  • Cut black#1A1A1A
  • Fold red#C62D2D

Prompt for your coding agent

Paste it with your chart's code. It restyles your data to match this chart.

Restyle my chart in the "Die Line" style described below. Keep my data, chart type, title meaning and units; change only the presentation. Use the charting library this project already uses (plain SVG if there is none). If the library can't express a detail, draw it in a custom layer instead of dropping it. Measurements assume a 960 x 600 chart; scale them proportionally.

Mood: a packaging engineer's dieline sheet printed on kraft board. Technical, tactile and precise: solid black cut lines, dashed red folds, monospaced callouts and printer's registration marks.

Colors (use these exact values):
- Background: #D8C3A0 (kraft board) for the whole canvas.
- Cut lines, title and primary labels: #1A1A1A. Fold lines and highlighted notes: #C62D2D.
- Panel fills: #EADCC0 (front panel) and #E0CDA8 (side panel and glue flap). Secondary text: #5A4630. Faint gridlines: #BFA67C.

Typography (Google Fonts):
- Archivo 800 for the title, 25px, #1A1A1A, -0.3px letter-spacing, sentence case, stating the finding.
- Space Mono for everything else: subtitle 12px 400 uppercase #5A4630 with 0.6px letter-spacing; value labels 15px 700 #1A1A1A; category labels 14px 700; secondary per-category notes 11px 400 #5A4630 (#C62D2D for the two extremes being compared); axis labels 11px; key labels 11px 700; source and sheet folio 11px.

Layout:
- 56px margins. Title baseline at 60, subtitle at 88. A small key on the subtitle line at the right: a 34px solid 1.6px black line with "CUT", then a 34px dashed red line with "FOLD" in red.
- Four registration marks at the corners of the chart area (about x 40 and 920, y 126 and 552): a 7px radius circle, a 3px filled center dot and a 26px crosshair, all 1px #1A1A1A.
- Plot from x 118 to 884, baseline at y 480. Footer at y 582: "Source: ..." left, "SHEET 1/1   DIELINE REV C" right.

Axes and grid:
- Dotted horizontal gridlines, 1px #BFA67C, dash 1 3. Y labels in Space Mono 11px #5A4630 right-aligned 12px left of the plot with thousands separators.
- A 1px #1A1A1A baseline. Category labels centered 26px below it, with a second line of notes 18px lower.

Marks:
- Bar chart: each bar is a flat carton blank about 72px wide. The left 62% is the front panel (#EADCC0), the right 38% the side panel (#E0CDA8). Cut outline 1.6px #1A1A1A around the top, right and bottom. On the left, a tapered glue flap 11px wide (#E0CDA8, cut outline) inset 10px from top and bottom, joined by a dashed fold. Dashed red fold lines (1.3px #C62D2D, dash 5 3) run across the bar 13px below the top and 13px above the base, and vertically at the panel split. A thumb notch (half-ellipse 16 x 6 px cut into the top edge) sits at the bar's center. Bars start at zero; the value label sits 12px above each bar.
- Line chart: draw the line as a 1.6px solid #1A1A1A cut line with straight segments, a dashed red 1.3px fold line along the target or average, and each point as a small square 7px die-cut hole (kraft fill, black outline). Shade the area under the line in #EADCC0 with the 13px dashed red fold offsets along the top edge.

Labels and annotation:
- Use two-line category labels: the category in bold mono, a derived efficiency figure below it (e.g. "472 cm2/100 g"), with the compared extremes in red.
- Write units in plain ASCII (cm2), not superscripts.

Avoid: gradients, shadows, rounded corners, color fills beyond kraft tones, more than one accent color, and sans-serif labels.

When you're done, render the chart and check that every bar still reads from a zero baseline, the fold lines sit inside each bar, registration marks sit clear of text, and the title's percentage matches the data.