# Colour into visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colour-into-visualization/33509>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 2, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colour-into-visualization/33509 "2015-11-02T11:31:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Massimo\_Carro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@Massimo\_Carro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Massimo_Carro)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colour-into-visualization/33509/1 "2015-11-02T11:31:51Z")

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Hi guys,  
we've problems with color visualization on chart into kibana.  
With many different data-set charts often show all information in black/gray color.  
Is it an issue or is not a configured step?

Here a chart ok and a chart all black.  
Thanks a lot.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/8/8f5a015c7648e9eed693b096d573f798052101fc.png)

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**Author:** ![stormpython](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stormpython/32/7190_2.png) [@stormpython](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stormpython)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colour-into-visualization/33509/2 "2015-11-03T22:19:27Z")

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@Massimo_Carro what version of Kibana are you using? How many fields in the legend are there?

Kibana currently uses a random color generating algorithm that tends to give bad colors when splitting on lots of fields. However, I've not seen the dark colors come up yet.

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**Author:** ![Massimo\_Carro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@Massimo\_Carro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Massimo_Carro)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colour-into-visualization/33509/3 "2015-11-04T07:52:59Z")

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@stormpython thanks for your answer.  
I use near 200 thousand fields, but this are split for each day into first five.  
If I look into a year timeline this 200 fields appear so 200 is the real number. ☹

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**Author:** ![stormpython](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stormpython/32/7190_2.png) [@stormpython](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stormpython)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colour-into-visualization/33509/4 "2016-02-18T19:37:46Z")

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Sorry for the late reply. But we opened an [issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5360) for this and merged a [pr](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/5805) with a fix. The fix was merged in Kibana 4.4.0.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colour-into-visualization/33509/5 "2017-07-06T14:01:49Z")

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