Color Schemes
Browse 14 OPF color schemes that align with your message, audience, and presentation context. Each scheme has stable tokens for humans and AI agents to reference.
14 of 14 schemes shown
Mood
Industry
Black and white removes decorative signal and puts emphasis on structure, evidence, and hierarchy.
Red creates urgency and momentum; cooler supporting accents keep the system from feeling one-note.
High-saturation accents feel modern and kinetic, making key claims and charts feel immediate.
Orange reads as optimistic and approachable, while red adds urgency and navy provides grounding.
Blue creates trust and stability; teal adds clarity and freshness without sacrificing professionalism.
Blue is the safest trust signal in professional rooms, especially when the deck needs to feel established.
Purple carries creativity and differentiation while still reading as composed in business contexts.
Green signals growth, health, and balance. Softer support colors make the system approachable.
Yellow creates optimism and visibility; teal and navy add enough contrast for presentation structure.
Muted gold and deep tones suggest quality, restraint, and considered decision-making.
Pastel reds feel warm and human while the blue support keeps the palette useful for structured information.
Gray reduces emotional load and lets structure, numbers, and phrasing carry the message.
Blue-gray tones feel precise and measured, making technical or analytical content easier to trust.
Contrasting bright accents create energy and variety, helping creative concepts feel less static.
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.
Use your primary color 60% of the time, secondary 30%, and accent 10% for visual balance.
Ensure text has at least 4.5:1 contrast ratio against backgrounds. All schemes in this catalog meet WCAG AA.
Match color psychology to audience expectations. Blue works for finance, green works for health, and purple works for technology.
Colors shift on projectors. Test dark backgrounds in the actual presentation environment before presenting.