Choosing Fonts for Enhanced Charts
You can choose the font type and face to use for your charts. The font size selections you make are applied to all chart items including the title, sub-title, subset, points, axis labels, and table data.
You can also choose the display size of the fonts. However, when choosing a size, keep in mind that the total area available for your chart does not change, even if the font size does. Therefore, the size you choose for the font impacts the available area for chart display. For example, in the following table, the large size font provides much less space on the chart for actual data display, than does the small size font.
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For the following chart... |
the font size selected is... |
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small |
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medium |
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large |
To make your font choices, double-click your chart, and on the Chart Customization dialog box, click Font, and choose your font size, face, and style.
Font Selection Considerations
The following suggestions will make your chart easier to read:
- Use the same font face for all chart elements.
- Apply only one font style to each chart element. For example, use only bold or italic for the title, rather than both.
- Limit use of the italic style.
