# Setting color scales

Analytics+ provides the ability to create a heatmap - either based on the same column or driven by a different column. Based on your data, you have the flexibility to set the number of bands or reverse the scale.

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You can also set custom numeric ranges and color schemes.

### 1. Custom color scales for charts

We've applied a custom range to color-code the bar chart.

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### 2. Custom color scales for cards

Notice how we've adjusted the ranges according to the data and applied custom colors. The default range is 0-10, 10-30, and 30-100.

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### 3. Custom color scales for tables

We've used custom ranges based on the PY values in this table.

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In the next section, we'll look at managing conditional formatting rules.