April 17, 2026 · 4 min read

How to Make a Chart with Your Brand Colors

If you're already pasting data into Chartissimo, the next step is usually getting the chart to match a specific brand color — your company's primary hex, a client's brand, a campaign palette. The good news: Chartissimo treats brand color as a first-class input, not a post-render tweak.

This walkthrough covers the workflow end to end — from the hex value in your brand guidelines to a downloaded PNG that uses your exact brand color. About three minutes start to finish.

What you'll need

That's the whole list. No design tool, no Photoshop, no fiddling with chart settings in PowerPoint.

Step 1: Paste your data

Open chartissimo.com/app and paste your data into the input panel. Two columns is the minimum: a category and a value. Headers in the first row are fine — Chartissimo detects them automatically.

Screenshot: data paste panel with sample two-column data (category, value)

If your data lives in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or even a Notion database, copy the cells you want and paste. There is no upload step and no file format to wrestle with.

Step 2: Pick a chart type

Choose column, bar, pie, or scatter from the chart type picker. Pick what your data actually wants — bars for comparisons, pie for parts of a whole, scatter for relationships. The brand color step works the same regardless of which type you pick.

Screenshot: chart type picker showing column / bar / pie / scatter options

Step 3: Enter your brand hex color

This is the step that does the work. In the style panel, find the Brand Color input and type your hex value. Either format works — #2E86AB or 2E86AB.

Screenshot: Brand Color input field with #2E86AB entered, color swatch visible

Chartissimo treats this as a hard constraint when it generates the styled chart. The AI restyle pipeline locks the hue to your brand color and builds the rest of the visual treatment around it — gradients, shadows, accents, contrast — so the chart feels designed rather than recolored after the fact.

Why this matters: most "brand color" features in chart tools just paint over an existing chart. The result looks like the wrong color was forced onto a generic template. Chartissimo restyles the entire chart around your color so it actually looks intentional.

Step 4: Pick or describe a style

You have two options:

Screenshot: style gallery with a preset selected, brand color applied to preview

If the first result is not quite right, hit Reroll for a variation in the same style, or tweak the prompt and regenerate. The brand color stays locked across rerolls.

Step 5: Download the PNG

Click Download to save the chart as a PNG, ready to drop into PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Figma, or anywhere else. There is also a copy-to-clipboard option if you want to paste straight into a slide without saving the file first.

Screenshot: download / copy controls with the finished branded chart visible

Tips for getting it right the first time

Working with multiple brand colors? For pie charts and grouped bars, the AI restyle uses your brand color as the anchor and generates complementary shades for the other categories — so the whole chart still feels on-brand without one harsh color fighting another.

The bottom line

A chart that uses your brand color does not just look better — it signals that the rest of the deck was made by someone who pays attention. Three minutes in Chartissimo replaces what used to be a "send it to design" task. Drop the hex in once, save it as a favorite, and every future chart in the project starts on-brand.

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