Line Chart Preset
Line
Line is an OPF line chart preset with canonical workbook metadata, sample data, and engine chart type mapping.
Use Case
Show how one or more metrics change over ordered categories or time.
Data Requirements
1 series, 12 categories, flat category/series workbook
Group
Trend charts for time-series movement and multi-series comparisons.
Series
1 series across 12 categories
Workbook Range
Sheet1!$A$1:$M$2
When to Use
Use for revenue, usage, retention, benchmarks, or any metric where direction matters more than isolated values.
When to Avoid
Avoid with unordered categories or when exact part-to-whole composition is the main message.
Series colors
By default a chart takes its series colors from the deck's color scheme. Series 1 to 6 use accent1 to accent6 of the scheme in that order; series 7 to 12 use the same six accents mixed 40% toward white (series 7 is a tint of accent1). A pie, doughnut, treemap or funnel gives category i color i. Charts with more than twelve series repeat the list.
Put the series that carries the message first, because accent1 is the deck's primary, and keep a chart to six series or fewer so no tint is needed. Each color is then adjusted so it keeps 3:1 contrast against the chart panel and stays apart from its neighbours; on a dark panel colors are lightened, never merged.
To set a series color yourself, give the chart chart.colors: a list of up to 24 colors by position, where entry i replaces the palette color of series (or slice, for a pie) i and the rest of the palette is unchanged. An entry is any ColorRef: a hex color, a color-scheme slot or role such as accent3 (it follows the deck if its scheme changes), or a var: color variable. The contrast adjustment still applies to authored colors, and the opf/chart-colors-adjusted warning says when an entry was unresolvable or had to be moved.
"chart": {
"type": "column",
"data": { "columns": ["Quarter", "Revenue", "Costs"], "rows": [["Q1", 12, 8], ["Q2", 18, 11]] },
"colors": ["accent3", "#7B241C"]
}highlight wins over both: the series and categories it names take the deck's primary color and every other mark takes a muted neutral, whatever chart.colors says.
Core 0.21.0 behavior.
Best Practices
Keep line weights consistent
Direct-label series when possible
Use markers only when individual points matter
Recommended Companions
OPF Config
charts:line{
"$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
"name": "PPTX.gallery — charts/line",
"description": "Line is an OPF line chart preset with canonical workbook metadata, sample data, and engine chart type mapping.",
"tags": [
"gallery:charts/line"
],
"slides": [
{
"id": "gallery-preview-1",
"layout": "chart",
"title": "Line",
"subtitle": "Show how one or more metrics change over ordered categories or time.",
"chart": {
"type": "line",
"data": {
"columns": [
"Category",
"Value"
],
"rows": [
[
"Q1 2024",
74042
],
[
"Q2 2024",
12552
],
[
"Q3 2024",
24662
],
[
"Q4 2024",
57576
],
[
"Q1 2025",
50306
],
[
"Q2 2025",
41385
],
[
"Q3 2025",
17592
],
[
"Q4 2025",
41571
],
[
"Q1 2026",
84364
],
[
"Q2 2026",
20322
],
[
"Q3 2026",
21226
],
[
"Q4 2026",
73699
]
]
}
}
}
],
"catalogs": {
"default": {
"source": "https://www.pptx.gallery",
"layouts": {
"chart": {
"name": "Chart",
"summary": "One to six charts, with an optional note.",
"tags": [
"Visuals"
],
"direction": "column",
"regions": [
{
"name": "title"
},
{
"name": "charts",
"accepts": [
"chart",
"group"
],
"role": "primary",
"flow": "grid"
},
{
"name": "note",
"size": "auto",
"accepts": [
"text"
],
"role": "supporting",
"flow": "none"
}
],
"description": "Give a chart enough space to show its evidence. Use the title to state the conclusion and labels to explain the measures.",
"preview": {
"vectorSrc": "https://www.pptx.gallery/layout-previews/chart.svg"
}
}
}
}
}
}Load this config in the gallery's visual editor, or in the Inspector at pptx.dev.