# Tips for making your dashboards more attractive

**URL:** <https://community.holistics.io/t/tips-for-making-your-dashboards-more-attractive/646>\
**Category:** Tips and Showcases\
**Tags:** visualizations\
**Created:** [January 4, 2022, 11:20am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/tips-for-making-your-dashboards-more-attractive/646 "2022-01-04T11:20:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![di.hoang](https://community.holistics.io/user_avatar/community.holistics.io/di.hoang/32/421_2.png) [@di.hoang](https://community.holistics.io/u/di.hoang)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 11:20am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/tips-for-making-your-dashboards-more-attractive/646/1 "2022-01-04T11:20:29Z")

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# Question: How should I do to make our dashboards look cleaner and more attractive?

## Tip #1: Change the display label of dimensions/measures with “Custom Label”

### Use case 1: You want to change the display label to a more friendlier text

For example, here we change the measure “Count of Id” to “orders”:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-01-04 at 17.55.50](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/7b6c996b9e2beacc75db5262cd36bb83309e0ebd.png)

### Use case 2: You want to remove/hide the label

For example, in order to hide the text below KPI Metric, we custom the label of the measure and **give it blank** :

 ![Screen Shot 2022-01-04 at 17.50.37](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/36b986cf1371b617a19d0252cb0891146d422cd9.png)

After that, our report will look as follows:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-01-04 at 17.51.43](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/2bf4281b550a631c600dfb22b25ef09f9bc7a8a6.png)

## Tip #2: Change the display label of legends

 ![image](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/25a77cf66196a6f3bdbf99279c6c89ff0aeaf518.png)

In some cases, you might want to change the legend labels to something friendlier (i.e: Female for f, and Male for m).  
If so, you can read our detailed guideline here: [Changing the display label of legends - Tips and Hacks - Holistics Community](https://community2.holistics.io/t/changing-the-display-label-of-legends/627)

## Tip #3: Shorten the values with “Data Format”

 ![Screen Shot 2022-01-04 at 16.45.39](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/73c0a06366ed22f8142eda2aa36bec87d8a26e40.png)

Sometimes, the values are a bit long and take many spaces in your chart. In this case, you can use our Data Format to flexibly change the value display to suit your needs: [Formatting Data | Holistics Docs](https://docs.holistics.io/docs/data-format)

## Tip #4: Change the chart color

Color is also one of the most significant factors that affect your dashboard look. We highly recommend you to:

1. Create some color palettes that fit your company; or  

2. Custom the color to make your charts look prettier  

For more information on theme and color settings in Holistics, you can read our doc here: [Themes and Colors | Holistics Docs](https://docs.holistics.io/docs/themes-and-colors)

## Tip #5: Add an image to your dashboard (i.e: logo)

 ![Screen Shot 2022-01-04 at 18.18.46](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/ff970e145221c680d3c6a6b4247cf0f0ae8cb862.png)

We’ve already opened another topic to discuss on this tip, you can read it here: [Embedding an image in your dashoard - Tips and Hacks - Holistics Community](https://community2.holistics.io/t/embedding-an-image-in-your-dashoard/618)

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**Author:** ![anthonytd](https://community.holistics.io/user_avatar/community.holistics.io/anthonytd/32/374_2.png) [@anthonytd](https://community.holistics.io/u/anthonytd)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 7:32am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/tips-for-making-your-dashboards-more-attractive/646/2 "2022-01-05T07:32:44Z")

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Awesome, @di.hoang 🙌

Just a minor comment

> [@di.hoang](#):
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> “Count of Id” to “orders”:

“ **Count orders** ” should be more self-explanatory