Legends

A legend acts as a key that explains the symbols, colors, or patterns in your chart (similar to a map key) helping readers understand what each element represents.

Legends can be customized in the following ways:

  • Hide/show the legend
  • Hide/show specific fields and marks in the legend
  • Change the title of the legend, and the display name of each mark
  • Change the position of the legend
  • Change the font style of the legend title and display names

Hide/show the legend

  • To hide or show the legend click the ellipses (...) for the visual (which is just below the Custom tab) and toggle to show or hide it.
  • When toggled on, you can also change the title of your legend.

It is also possible to hide a legend by right-clicking directly on a legend title in the canvas and selecting Hide legend

Hide/show specific fields and marks in the legend

To show/hide specific marks in the legend:

  • Select the ellipses (...)menu next to the mark type.
  • Toggle on or off Show marks in legend
  • Edit the display name for the mark in the legend if required

To show/hide specific fields in the legend:

  • Navigate to the field you want to unhide the legend for.
  • Click the ellipses (...)menu.
  • Go to Display and enable the legend.

You can also access the above options by right-clicking on a category in the legend itself and selecting Edit legend...

Setting legend position

  1. Right-click on the legend title.
  2. Select a position from the Legend position menu.

Font style of legends

Refer to the Style section for formatting the font style within legends.