The new Modern charts experience in Looker Studio provides new chart styling, new default chart configuration options, and new chart settings that give report creators greater control over how data is curated and presented to users. Improvements include support for rounded edges in column and bar charts, chart legend updates, axis and grid lightening, and an enhanced chart customization experience.
The Modern charts experience can be enabled on individual reports. Report creators can seamlessly switch between the new chart experience and original chart experience.
Modern charts improvements include the following:
- New default color themes
- New default chart configuration options, such as rounded edges for column and bar charts
- New line gradient settings for line charts and time series charts
- New transparency options for bubbles on scatter charts and bubble charts
- New chart padding control settings for pie charts and donut charts
- New grid line stroke and style settings
- New individual axis line visibility, stroke, and color settings
- New axis title style settings
- New axis label rotation settings
Switching to the Modern charts experience
To switch a report to the new Modern charts experience in Looker Studio, follow these steps:
- Edit your report or create a new report.
In the toolbar, click Theme and layout to open the Theme and layout panel.
Alternatively, you can click Theme and layout from the File menu options.
In the Theme and layout panel, click the Modern charts switch.
The charts on your report will now use the new Modern charts experience.
Disabling the Modern charts experience
To switch a report back to the default chart experience in Looker Studio, follow these steps:
- Edit your report.
In the toolbar, click Theme and layout to open the Theme and layout panel.
Alternatively, you can click Theme and layout from the File menu options.
In the Theme and layout panel, click the Modern charts switch to turn the feature off.
The charts on your report will now use the original chart experience.
Providing feedback
If you encounter any issues while using this feature, or have other feedback for our team regarding this feature, you can submit feedback by following these steps:
- Edit your report.
In the toolbar, click Theme and layout to open the Theme and layout panel.
Alternatively, you can click Theme and layout from the File menu options.
Click the Share feedback button in the Modern Charts section of the Theme and layout panel.
In the Send feedback dialog, enter your feedback in the text field.
Optionally, if you'd like to include a screenshot of the issue, click Capture screenshot to capture a screenshot.
Click Send.