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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Festival Run bar chart, dark theme: Slate distribution report with steel bars, a gold premiere and award dots.

Festival Run

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Slate distribution report with steel bars, a gold premiere and award dots.

  • Deep slate#1A1F26
  • Muted steel#6D7B8C
  • Premiere gold#E2B33C
  • Pale gray#D5D9DF

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 "Festival Run" 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 film distributor's festival run report. Deep slate, a classical inscriptional title, cool steel bars and a single gold highlight for the premiere, with gold dots like laurels for awards. Prestigious but restrained.

Colors (use these exact values):
- Background: #1A1F26 (deep slate).
- Ordinary bars and calendar markers: #6D7B8C (muted steel).
- Highlight bar, its label, award dots, the eyebrow and the highlighted calendar marker: #E2B33C (gold).
- Labels: #D5D9DF (pale gray). Title: #F2EFE6. Secondary text: #8A93A0. Gridlines and rules: #2C333D.

Typography (Google Fonts):
- Cinzel 700 for the title (30px, #F2EFE6, stating the totals) and the small folio (12px, 2px letter-spacing).
- Manrope for everything else: eyebrow 700 11px uppercase with 2.4px letter-spacing in gold; subtitle 400 15px #8A93A0; legend 600 13px; category names 500 13px right-aligned (700 gold for the highlight); bar values 700 13px; axis ticks 600 11px; calendar caption 700 10px uppercase with 1.6px letter-spacing; month labels 600 10.5px uppercase with 1px letter-spacing; source 12px.

Layout:
- Eyebrow, title and subtitle at top left (x 56); a small legend (gold bar swatch "World premiere", gold dot "One award win") right-aligned on the subtitle line; a 1px #2C333D rule beneath.
- Category names right-aligned at x 248, bars from x 262 to about 790, rows about 24px apart with 14px bars.
- Beneath the bars, a slim calendar strip from x 262 to 904 with its caption right-aligned to the left of it, then a footer rule, source left and folio right.

Axes and grid:
- Thin vertical 1px #2C333D gridlines at round values with small tick labels under the last row; a 1px #D5D9DF zero line at the left edge of the bars.

Marks:
- Bar chart: ranked horizontal bars from zero with 2px rounded right ends, all #6D7B8C except the premiere or key category in #E2B33C. The value sits 9px past the bar end; each award is a 5px-radius gold dot placed after the value, 14px apart. The highlight gets a short note in #8A93A0 after its dots.
- Line chart: 2px #6D7B8C lines for ordinary series and a 3px #E2B33C line for the key series, with gold 5px dots at points where an award or milestone happened and direct labels at the line ends.
- Calendar strip: a 1px #8A93A0 line with 8px month ticks and month labels centered below; each event is an 8px diamond (rotated square) with a 1.5px slate outline at its month, side by side when a month holds several, gold for the highlight. A release window is a translucent #6D7B8C band (35% fill, 1px stroke, radius 2) over the strip with an uppercase caption above.

Avoid: more than one gold bar, gradients, glows, shadows, heavy gridlines and bright secondary colors.

When you're done, render the chart and check that the title totals match the data, the bars are sorted, every award dot sits after its bar value without touching the next row, and the calendar diamonds sit in the right months.