Changing Font Sizes and Colors In The Dashboard

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video, I want to talk about changing some of the font colors and
• 00:07 sizes for some of the things in our dashboard here.
• 00:10 So you'll notice all of these things have titles, right?
• 00:13 Dog colors, dog breeds, dog names, dog breeds with license types.
• 00:17 And we can play around with all of these things color wise,
• 00:20 as well as content wise.
• 00:21 So all we have to do is come over here and right click around the title, and
• 00:25 you can click Edit title.
• 00:27 And here it's by default taking the sheet name but
• 00:31 if you wanted to change this you could we could go dog color pie chart, right?
• 00:35 I don't know why you would want to because it's obviously a pie chart.
• 00:38 But we do that click apply and boom that changes.
• 00:41 We can also change the color.
• 00:42 So we could play around with all of these things right in here.
• 00:45 So for instance, if we wanted it sort of dark purple, we could do that and
• 00:49 if we wanted to make it bold, we could do that.
• 00:52 If we wanted to make it bigger, do that and we click Apply, boom,
• 00:55 these things happen.
• 00:57 We can center it if we wanted to write it, all right?
• 01:01 We could play around with this stuff, I would leave that alone for now,
• 01:03 you could change the font as well.
• 01:05 So here are all the fonts that are on my computer right now I could choose through
• 01:08 all of them.
• 01:09 Just make sure anytime you make a change that you've highlighted the text
• 01:12 right here.
• 01:13 So for instance, if I'm just sitting here and I click unbold,
• 01:16 nothing has changed because I haven't highlighted it first.
• 01:20 I have to highlight and then click it then you can see it un-bolds.
• 01:23 I click Apply and happens up there.
• 01:25 So change that back to bold, apply, very cool.
• 01:29 So that's not the only thing we can do.
• 01:31 We can also right click here and we can hide the title if we don't want it.
• 01:35 Now it's gone completely.
• 01:37 If we want it back,
• 01:38 we have to come over to this little caret drop down menu right here and click Title.
• 01:41 You can see that pops right back, that's kind of cool.
• 01:45 We can format the title if we want to change more colors.
• 01:48 So we've changed the text color,
• 01:50 we can actually change all of the color for the title.
• 01:54 So you can come up here and give it some shading if we want.
• 01:57 So if we wanted to say pick this color right here, you see now it's shading and
• 02:01 you can change the transparency.
• 02:03 So we can scale it back so you can barely see it now and
• 02:06 make it a little bit more okay, it's a little more dark.
• 02:10 There we go all the way to 100 and it's not transparent at all.
• 02:14 So that's kind of interesting.
• 02:15 We can give it a border if we want.
• 02:16 So maybe like something like that, I don't know.
• 02:20 And you can play around you can make it dotted, spaced, you can set the thickness.
• 02:25 So if we want something like that or like that, just solid like that.
• 02:29 Very cool and if you want more colors besides this, we can click more colors and
• 02:33 you get a whole color wheel.
• 02:35 So you can come through here and pick anything you want, or
• 02:38 you could pull up a web browser and search for HTML color codes, and
• 02:42 you could pick a specific color code, and then you can enter it right there.
• 02:46 That's really handy.
• 02:47 If you have a very specific color that you want to use,
• 02:50 if your company has a specific color that it uses for its logos and things.
• 02:55 And the hex color code for that you could pop that in there.
• 02:59 And it's an easy way to do that, so that's very cool.
• 03:02 We can get out of here we can change the caption.
• 03:05 Now right now there isn't a caption.
• 03:07 So if we want a caption, that's going to be down here at the bottom,
• 03:10 we need to come over to this little caret click on here and then click caption.
• 03:13 You can see boom, a little caption pops up.
• 03:15 And same thing we can play with all of these colors, right?
• 03:19 Maybe try and keep it the same general color.
• 03:23 We can give this a border if we want.
• 03:25 All right?
• 03:26 Change these things around whenever you like.
• 03:31 Really easy and then when you're done with this,
• 03:33 you can either clear it to get rid of all those changes or you can come up here and
• 03:37 just exit out of there and that works fine.
• 03:39 That's a quick and easy way to change the text colors of your dashboard, and
• 03:43 also your captions, I suppose.
• 03:45 And like with everything in tableau, very easy to do.
• 03:47 So that's all for this video.
• 03:48 In the next video, we'll look at rearranging the vertical column.

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