# Is there a way to change opacity or color in area chart?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-opacity-or-color-in-area-chart/127020>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 6, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-opacity-or-color-in-area-chart/127020 "2018-04-06T04:50:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![shreyash\_hisariya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@shreyash\_hisariya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shreyash_hisariya)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-opacity-or-color-in-area-chart/127020/1 "2018-04-06T04:50:17Z")

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I started building visualisation with kibana 6.2. But I can see that even basic functionality of picking colors is restricted and only few colors are provided. Is this an issue or I am missing something?  
I can also see that I cannot configure opacity of area in visualisation.

( I went through few workarounds but finally I realised that if I use Kibana I will end up with work arounds only. )

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-opacity-or-color-in-area-chart/127020/2 "2018-04-10T14:41:55Z")

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Hi,

You can pick the colors on the chart using legend. ![02%20AM%20(2)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/a/8a1819c5c326c2a5914b79ceacdc548773ce1fe2.png)

Does that help? You can always log an enhancement request here too : [https://github.com/elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana) and perhaps even work on a PR with community's help?

Thanks.  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-opacity-or-color-in-area-chart/127020/3 "2018-04-10T15:07:45Z")

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Also both timelion and TSVB (Visual builder) lets you add opacity to your charts: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/timelion-customize.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/timelion-customize.html)

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/time-series-visual-builder.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/time-series-visual-builder.html)

Cheers,  
Bhavya

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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:** [May 8, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-opacity-or-color-in-area-chart/127020/4 "2018-05-08T15:07:55Z")

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