Color Lookups

Mappica's intelligent color system combines your predefined lookups with AI-powered semantic color assignment for instant, meaningful visualizations.

A Better Way to Add Colors

Theme Manager sets your brand palette, fonts, and UI styling for every project. Color Lookups are saved rules that map categories to colors. In the editor, Lookup Colors applies those rules first; AI assigns the rest.

How Generate Colors works

Imagine a chart or map with categories like energy sources:

Solar
Hydroelectric
Nuclear
Wind
1

Open Lookup Colors

In the visualization editor, choose Lookup Colors to run intelligent assignment.

2

Lookups apply first

Mappica uses any color rules you've defined in the workspace for matching categories.

Solar
Nuclear
Wind
3

AI fills the rest

For categories without a rule, AI infers meaning, checks your brand palette, and picks a contrasting color.

Hydroelectric

Intelligent Color Features

Built-in features that ensure your colors are accessible, consistent, and perfectly suited to your brand

Auto Contrast

Where possible, AI ensures colors have sufficient contrast for accessibility and visual clarity.

Project Rules

Create color rules that apply to specific projects or across your entire workspace for flexible organization.

Copy Colors

Copy color assignments between charts and maps to maintain consistency across your entire visualization.

On Brand

When making a semantic color assignment, AI attempts to find an appropriate color from your brand palette.

Perfect For Every Data Story

Semantic color mapping that understands context automatically — from political analysis to business reports, your colors tell the right story across your entire workspace

Political Analysis

AI can automatically assign colors to political parties, like red for Republicans and blue for Democrats.

Business Intelligence

Smart semantic mapping assigns industry-standard colors, like green for profits and red for losses.

Policy Data

Context-aware AI assigns appropriate colors to common categories: like yellow for solar and blue for hydro.

Ready to Use Smart Colors in Your Visualizations?

Join the Mappica community and start creating meaningful, color-coded data stories. Start with our free plan and upgrade as you grow.