This meta issue tracks the workstream for improving/enhancing Styling and chart configurability.

Basic Expectations

• Legend options (hide/show) ([Lens] add option hide/show/auto legend to XY Chart #67310)
• Text options
• Support Color palettes for series ([Lens] break down by - allow users to select their color palette  #53661 [Lens] Allow users to select chart level categorical color palette #68404 [Lens] Categorical color functions #68330)
• Support categorical coloring by name (also referred to as value overrides by some ) ([Lens] Support categorical coloring by name #101942)
  • Re-usable palettes Allow customizable color palettes in Kibana #17764
• Legend position ([Lens] Choose legend position for both XY and pie charts separately #68293)
• Hide "per unit" label on date histograms ([Lens] Custom interval appends "per <unit>" post fix to datatable header title #98054)
• Show empty plot instead of "No results found" #3706
• [Lens] Make "empty state" display consistent across charts #136502

Small Multiples

• Grid layout when splitting charts #3190
• Scroll visualization instead of "too small" message #3391
• allow to show gauges in multiple lines #12716
• Ensure hiding empty values is compatible with lens small multiples...then close: Hide empty buckets in terms bar chart #5221

XY chart

• X axis styling ([Lens] X axis styling options #68315)
• Y axis styling ([Lens] Y axis styling options #68314)
• Show current time marker
• Support for two y-axis ([Lens] Support two y-axis for visualizing data in different scale  #53663)
• Value labels on bar/line area ([Lens] values on chart #69100)
• Changing bar width Why do widths change when hiding a value? #72319
• Fitting values for null data (Allow users to configure fitting/filling function for missing/null buckets #17717)
• Stacked to 100% ( [Lens] Stacked to 100% option #57389)
• Insert vertical line annotations [Lens] Users can insert vertical line annotations on timeseries charts #87564
• Insert vertical rectangle annotations [Lens] Users can insert vertical rectangle annotations by dragging on the chart #87566
• Annotations from query, like TSVB ([Lens] Support for reading annotations similar to TSVB, from an Elasticsearch query #62277)
• Multiple constant thresholds on xy charts [Lens] Support multiple thresholds on bar/line/area charts #55265
• Dynamic thresholds from chart data [Lens] Support dynamic thresholds based on data from the chart #87548
• Dynamic thresholds from query [Lens] Support dynamic thresholds based on a query #87551
• Dynamic trendlines based on chart data Trend lines on charts #3325
• [Lens] Reference line color above / below contrast issue in dark mode #141452
• Same buckets with different series styles [Lens] Ability to use same buckets with different series styles #54582
• Improve mixed data types on X axis [Lens] Handle mixed datatypes on the X axis better (i.e. date field and string field) #55899
• Trend lines on charts Trend lines on charts #3325
• "Compare" mode [Lens] Dedicated compare chart #43833
• Start and end value for fitting functions [Lens] Missing values - Fitting functions should support start/end values for fitting #72691
• Different line styles (stepped, smoothened, straight) [Lens] Add support for step in area/line charts #154410
• Show hide axis label
• Line chart styling (dot size, show/hide dots, line width) [Lens] Line chart styling controls #124279
• SetY axis extents [Lens] Set Y-axis extents to custom values #67614
• Set axis scales [Lens] Set axis scale #98186
• Enable fitting functions for stacked area charts [Lens] Enable fitting functions for stacked area charts #75031
• Individual axis settings for left and right y axis [Lens] Allow user to change y axis settings separately for each axis #74836
• Zoom axis Vertical zoom #80117
• Multiple break down by [Lens] Support for multiple breakdown by #82208
• Value labels on all charts [Lens] Enable value labels on chart for other xy chart types #82954
• Total value labels for stacked bars [Lens] Display total value on top of each bar in the vertical bar chart #55262
• Control axis label rotation [Lens] Allow configuration of axis labels orientation #92574
• Line curving options [Lens] xy chart curving options #94060
• "Right to left" horizontal bar charts Horizontal bar charts with X axis on the right side instead of left #77398
• Legend in chart [Lens] Allow legend in chart #95887
• Legend with value [Lens] Show value in legend #95888
• Improve tick formatting [Lens] Improve tick formatting #97100
• Legend - Better support for long value names Better support for long values  #41418 & [Lens] Options to trim axis labels/ticks for long text field values #100231
• [Lens] Legend - Configuration to disable "filter for/out value" #122849
• Values on bar improvements [XY axis] Values on bar charts #101573
• [Lens] Percentage chart should not require a "break down by" dimenson when using more than one metric on the same axis #106323
• [Lens] line color based on threshold #19672
• [Lens] Transparency option on series color #112839
• Ability to specify x-axis extents/margins on line visualizations #113054
• [Lens] Axis color option #113755
• Inverting y axis in histograms #1392
• [Lens] Ability to define multiple axis for the same series #116619
• make legend order match stacked bar order #3118
• [Lens] Offer option to ignore missing values in line chart #117280
• [Lens] Zoom & pan time series visualizations #120688
• [Lens] Allow custom legend series actions / drilldowns #123750
• [Lens] Sync bounds of left and right y axis #124495
• Add log scale in charts for x-axis #4530 (lens would need both Y and X axis support)
• [Lens] visually reverse date histogram order  #126778
• [Lens] Bollinger Bands #2796
• [Lens] y-axis automatic scaling/data bound values puts a single value at the bottom. #108442
• [Lens] Default legend size to fixed #129474
• [Lens] Time series XY - display current time range #130731
• [Lens] display counts, sum, last values as a percentage on XY visualizations #131340
• [Lens] Allow reference line text to be rotated in visualizations #133073
• Lens: Add an option to change the legend height when the legend is at the top or bottom. #133816 (comment)
• Add More Customization to Relative Date Format #25815
• [Lens] Multi-dimensional Legend - separate visually #3402
• [Lens] Metric - Ability to fill color when using a defined maximum #139043
• [Lens] Change a series color from the legend #92151

Pie chart

• Change donut size ([Lens] Pie and donuts should have a size ratio setting #65538)
• Reorder slices ([Lens] Allow Lens pie chart to order columns based on data #90179)
• [Pie][Lens] Allow the labels to be displayed only outside the chart #111673
• Pie chart as sum of multiple fields #8143
• Text inside donut pie charts #7446

Metric chart

• [Lens] Allow palette configuration for metric #102035
• [Lens] Improve metric alignment #120386
• second metric (find issue)
• [Lens] Metric color - "panel" option #120387
• [Lens] Allow metric visualization to drill down  #122879
• Add subtitle
• [Lens] Metric visualization with time based comparison #66222
• [Lens] Support a "break down by" option for the Metric chart type #79015
• Trends #2647 & [Feature request] Visualisation with arrow indicating trend #51231
• [Lens] Metric grid: Trend line support #135882
• [Lens] Add support for icons on metric visualizations #129229
• [Lens] Metric grid: Allow multiple layers  #135881
• [Lens] Allow non-numeric metrics for metric vis #137756

metric becomes an elastic-chart?

• Micro visualizations as metric background

Tooltip

• Tooltip customization basics (hover mode & visibility) [Lens] Tooltip customization basics (hover mode & visibility) #102753
• [Lens] Ability to customize your tooltip fields #15026
• Additional metrics in tooltips [Lens] Allow extra metrics in the tooltip #106024
• Disable tooltips in Kibana #98134

Heatmap

• Allow changing color palette [Lens] Allow palette configuration for heatmap #102034
• Remove experimental status [Lens] Get Heatmap out of experimental status #102036
• Show/hide cell values [Lens] Add Heatmap option to show cell values #105410
• [Lens] Heatmap - Ability to hide axis labels #111880
• [Lens] Add ability to save and load color stop configurations #119137
• How to show ‘0’ in empty cells in heatmap in kibana 7.1.1? #42661

Frame / inter-chart

• Improve default percentage formatting [Lens] Change default formatter for percentages to 0.[00] #72320
• Disable legends (Ability to remove legend of visualizations #34102)
• Customize font size (Configurable font size #2207)
• Set custom color ranges for break down by
• Conditional styling (Conditional XY bar metric colors #4482)
• Number format options [Lens] Add more number format options #72711
• Date format options [Lens] Date formatter #67206
• Unit format options [Lens] Support a formatter or format option which append "per second" "per minute" "per hour" #76714
• Shared color service [Lens] Should Lens use colors from shared color service? #62193
• Context aware date formatter [Lens] Improve date formatting by using a context-aware formatter like D3 #51227
• Small multiples [Lens] Support small multiples / facet / trellis for XY and Partition charts #72063
• Sync cursor position [Lens] Synchronize cursor position for X-axis across all Lens visualizations in a dashboard #77530
• Suffix formatter [Lens] Enable custom prefix and suffix for Y axis range values #88402
• Context aware formatting [Lens] Format range labels in tables #93265
• Unstacked line percentage chart [Lens] Allow unstacked line percentage chart #95142
• Separate color dimension [Lens] Separate color dimension for all chart types #95556
• Dynamic coloring - missing and null value handling [Lens] support dynamic coloring for missing values #96404
• Dynamic coloring - out of range handling [Lens] Table dynamic coloring: control coloring for values outside range #96402
• Categorical coloring by name
• Textures [Lens] Expose texture settings for bars and areas in Lens #102037
• [Lens] allow transparent "color" in color by value ramps #106405
• Support scientific notation for very small numbers #5811
• [Lens] shortcut to bit formatter w. suffix support #139639

Tables

Full list of table options #57709

Waffle

• [Lens] Limit top values & filters on waffle visualizations #121335

Goal

• [Lens] Breakdown dimension for goal visualizations #123804

Additional chart types

Most requested new charts

• Heatmap [Lens] Support heatmap visualization #89856
• Scatter chart with customizable shapes (Scatterplot elastic-charts#502)
• Gauge/goal [Lens] Support bullet/gauge chart #89859
• Gantt chart (Gantt chart widget #3998)
• Flow diagrams (Sankey) (Flow graphs (Sankey visualization) #4716)
• Flow diagrams (Circular) (Circular connector charts #5215)
• Box plot (Box plot / Candlestick visualization #4157)
• Flame graphs (Flame graphs #16423)
• Bubble charts ([Lens] Bubble charts #67224)
• Maps integration ([Lens] Support for geo fields / maps #80078)
• Icicle chart ([Lens] Support icicle chart #89860)
• Word cloud ([Lens] Add word cloud support #95542)
  • 'Color by term' for word cloud: Should be able to specify the color of the tag cloud tags #12418
  • [Visualize] user should be able to reverse color palette in tag cloud #116634
• Pareto chart Pareto charts #96488
  • Possible to do manually using formula, but we might offer it as a template
• [Lens] Mosaic / mekko vis type #104223
• [Lens] Waffle visualization type #107059
• Race chart visualization feature #124117

New editing experiences for specific use cases

• Timeseries chart (only way to support trend lines)
• Metrics/logging terminology
• BI use cases
• Financial analysis: specific expected editing experience

Color stop editor

• [Lens] Visually edit visualization color by value (ramp / preview) #119051
• [Lens] Drag color stop colors/values to re-order them #119052