You generated a chart you like, the data is right, the style is right — but the brand color needs to change. Maybe the brand updated their primary hex. Maybe you used the wrong color from the wrong subsidiary. Maybe the slide background changed and the original color no longer pops.
The temptation is to start over: paste the data again, pick the chart type again, regenerate. Don't. Chartissimo has a one-click recolor on every existing chart that keeps the style intact and only swaps the color.
Where the recolor lives
Open the chart you want to recolor from your Recent gallery. In the right-hand action sidebar, you'll see a Brand Color button (it sits next to Relabel and above Reroll).
That button is the recolor panel. It's only visible on charts that support relabeling — generated charts have it; older imported charts may not. If you don't see it, you're probably on a chart type that wasn't generated with the relabel-capable pipeline; regenerate once and the button will be there from then on.
Step 1: Open the Brand Color panel
Click Brand Color. The panel expands to show a checkbox, a color picker, and a hex input.
Step 2: Tick the checkbox and enter the new hex
Tick the Brand Color checkbox to enable the inputs, then type the new hex value. Either format works — #2E86AB or 2E86AB. The color picker swatch updates as you type.
Step 3: Click Apply Brand Color, then Reroll with Re-Color
Click Apply Brand Color. The Reroll button at the bottom of the sidebar morphs into Reroll with Re-Color — Chartissimo has noticed there's a pending color change and is offering to commit it. Click that, and the chart re-renders with the new color baked in.
The style stays the same. The data stays the same. Only the color changes. If you also edited labels in the Relabel panel above, the button reads Reroll, Relabel & Re-Color and commits both at once — one re-render instead of two.
Why this is faster than starting over
If you regenerate from scratch, you get a new visual treatment — the AI re-rolls the whole style and you lose the specific shadows, gradients, and composition you liked. The recolor path locks the visual treatment and only swaps the hue, which is almost always what you actually wanted.
Mental model: Reroll is "give me a different chart." Reroll with Re-Color is "give me the same chart in a different color."
When to use recolor vs. when to regenerate
- Recolor when the chart is right and only the color is wrong. New brand hex, new slide background, swapping between client decks.
- Regenerate when the visual style itself is wrong, when the data has changed, or when you want to try a different aesthetic on the same data.
- Save as Favorite first if you might want to reuse the original color version later. Recolor commits the new color to that chart.
What about non-brand-color elements?
The recolor pipeline anchors on your brand color and rebuilds the surrounding palette around it. Pie segments, grouped bars, and accents shift to complementary shades that work with the new anchor. You don't end up with the new color forced onto the old palette — the whole palette regenerates around the new anchor.
If you need a specific secondary color (not just whatever the AI picks as a complement), use the custom style prompt to call it out before the recolor: "secondary accent in #F4A261." That instruction sticks across recolors.
The bottom line
Brand colors change. Slide backgrounds change. Whose deck the chart lives in changes. The original chart usually doesn't need to. Brand Color → enter hex → Reroll with Re-Color is a 30-second workflow that swaps the color without touching anything else.