Change chart mark style

You can control how chart marks (bars, points, and arcs) appear by setting their mark style to Solid, Hollow, or Outline. This lets you distinguish data series visually through shape treatment rather than color alone.

Mark style settings apply to bar, point (scatter/bubble), and arc (donut) charts.
Mark style is not available for line or area charts.

Mark style modes

Mode Description

Solid (default)

The mark renders as a solid fill. No outline is applied.

Hollow

The fill is removed. Only the outline border is rendered, giving marks a ring or hollow appearance.

Outline

The fill is rendered, and an outline border is layered on top of the fill.

Outline style sub-settings

When you select Hollow or Outline, additional sub-settings appear:

Setting Description

Outline width

Controls the thickness of the outline stroke in pixels.

Outline color

Sets the color of the outline. Available when no Slice by Color is applied. When a color encoding is active, the outline automatically inherits the same color as the mark fill, darkened for contrast.

Outline style

Sets the outline appearance: Solid, Dashed, or Dotted.

Outline color behavior

The behavior of the outline color depends on whether a Slice by Color is applied to the chart:

No Slice by Color

Mode Fill Outline color

Solid

Measure color

Not applicable — no outline.

Hollow

None (fill disabled)

Set to the measure color. Editable.

Outline

Measure color

Set to the measure color. Editable.

You can change the outline color freely using the color picker when no Slice by Color is active.

With Slice by Color

When a Slice by Color encoding is active, the manually set outline color is ignored. The outline automatically inherits the same attribute as the color encoding:

Mode Fill Outline color

Solid

Color encoding attribute

Not applicable — no outline.

Hollow

None (fill disabled)

Inherits the color encoding attribute.

Outline

Color encoding attribute

Inherits the color encoding attribute, darkened for contrast against the fill.
Conditional formatting takes the highest precedence and overrides both the outline color and the color encoding.

Switching between modes

  • If you switch from Hollow or Outline to Solid, outline sub-settings collapse and are hidden.

  • If you add a Slice by Color while Hollow or Outline is active, the outline color field becomes hidden or disabled, and the outline inherits the color encoding automatically.

  • If you remove a Slice by Color while Hollow or Outline is active, the outline color field becomes editable again, and reverts to the measure color.

Set the mark style for a chart column

Mark style is a per-measure setting. To configure it, follow these steps:

  1. Open your chart in ThoughtSpot, then click the Column icon Column settings icon on the right side panel to open the Column settings.

  2. Select the measure column you want to style.

  3. Under Advanced, expand the Mark Style section.

  4. Select the style you want: Solid, Hollow, or Outline.

  5. If you selected Hollow or Outline, configure the sub-settings:

    1. Set Outline width (in pixels).

    2. Set Outline color using the color picker (when no Slice by Color is active).

    3. Set Outline style: Solid, Dashed, or Dotted.

  6. Your changes apply immediately to the chart.

Limitations

  • Mark Style applies only to bar, point (scatter/bubble), and arc (donut) chart types. It is not available for line or area marks.

  • Outline color encoding does not appear in the chart legend in this release.

  • Outline width and outline style do not have data-driven (field-based) encoding in this release — they are applied uniformly per measure.