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Treemap Chart Preset

Treemap

Treemap is an OPF treemap chart preset with canonical workbook metadata, sample data, and engine chart type mapping.

treemapOPF type: TREEMAPsimple
Treemap chart preview rendered from its OPF sample

Use Case

Show how categories and subcategories contribute to a total.

Data Requirements

1 series, 6 categories, flat category/series workbook

Group

Hierarchical part-to-whole charts using nested rectangles.

Series

1 series across 6 categories

Workbook Range

Sheet1!$A$1:$G$2

When to Use

Use when hierarchy and relative size are both important.

When to Avoid

Avoid when the audience needs exact sequential comparison or many labels must be read.

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

1

Keep hierarchy shallow

2

Label only readable blocks

3

Use grouping color consistently

Recommended Companions

OPF Config

charts:treemap
OPF JSON
{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — charts/treemap",
  "description": "Treemap is an OPF treemap chart preset with canonical workbook metadata, sample data, and engine chart type mapping.",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:charts/treemap"
  ],
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "chart",
      "title": "Treemap",
      "subtitle": "Show how categories and subcategories contribute to a total.",
      "chart": {
        "type": "treemap",
        "data": {
          "columns": [
            "Level1",
            "Series1"
          ],
          "rows": [
            [
              "Q1 2024",
              21164
            ],
            [
              "Q2 2024",
              42530
            ],
            [
              "Q3 2024",
              25525
            ],
            [
              "Q4 2024",
              83147
            ],
            [
              "Q1 2025",
              64548
            ],
            [
              "Q2 2025",
              89471
            ]
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "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"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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