Custom Chart Palette

When a user needs to define custom sets of colors, they can take advantage of custom palettes. Here is an example that shows how to achieve this:

Example

Create a static class that will provide custom palette instances:

public class CustomPalettes
{
    static CustomPalettes()
    {
        CreateCustomDarkPalette();
    }

    public static ChartPalette CustomDark { get; private set; }

    private static void CreateCustomDarkPalette()
    {
        ChartPalette palette = new ChartPalette();

        palette.Entries.Add(new PaletteEntry() { FillColor = Color.FromRgb(246, 0, 29), StrokeColor = Color.FromRgb(178, 0, 21) });
        palette.Entries.Add(new PaletteEntry() { FillColor = Color.FromRgb(255, 206, 0), StrokeColor = Color.FromRgb(186, 150, 0) });
        palette.Entries.Add(new PaletteEntry() { FillColor = Color.FromRgb(20, 216, 0), StrokeColor = Color.FromRgb(14, 152, 0) });

        CustomDark = palette;
    }
}

Create a chart and set the chart palette to your custom defined one:

var chart = new RadCartesianChart
{
    HorizontalAxis = new CategoricalAxis(),
    VerticalAxis = new NumericalAxis(),
};

for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
    var series = new BarSeries();
    series.ItemsSource = GetCategoricalData();
    series.ValueBinding = new PropertyNameDataPointBinding("Value");
    series.CategoryBinding = new PropertyNameDataPointBinding("Category");
    series.CombineMode = ChartSeriesCombineMode.Cluster;

    chart.Series.Add(series);
}

chart.Palette = CustomPalettes.CustomDark;

Here is how the chart gets its sample data:

private static Random random = new Random();
private static string[] categories = new string[] { "Greenings", "Perfecto", "NearBy", "Family", "Fresh" };

public static ObservableCollection<CategoricalData> GetCategoricalData()
{
    var data = new ObservableCollection<CategoricalData>();
    for (int i = 0; i < categories.Length; i++)
    {
        data.Add(new CategoricalData() { Value = random.Next(50, 100), Category = categories[i] });
    }

    return data;
}

And the data class:

public class CategoricalData
{
    public object Category { get; set; }
    public double Value { get; set; }
}

Here is the result: