How to Create a Custom Colour Theme in Tableau

Looking to give your dashboards a truly bespoke look? This post from Tyler Green walks you through everything you need to know to create custom colour themes in Tableau — from locating your “My Tableau Repository” folder to editing the Preferences.tps file, adding your own hex-coded palettes, then restarting Tableau so the new themes appear under “Edit Colours”. It covers categorical, sequential and diverging palettes, so whether you’re colouring discrete categories or mapping numeric ranges you’ll find what you need. Best of all, no developer skills required — just copy, paste, and restart.