# Color Palettes

Color palettes provide both predefined and customized options and can be applied to either fill or stroke. Predefined palettes comes in diverging, sequential and qualitative types.

To choose a palette:

1. Expand layer pane and click on the color bar from either filled color or stroke color section. Click on the three dots to select the field to color by.

![expand](https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/kepler.gl/documentation/l-color-attributes-0.png)

2. To choose a custom palette, toggle on custom button. Click on each color to pick new color either by clicking on the color picker or inputting HEX/RGB values. Colors steps can be added, removed or shuffled.

![toggle](https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/kepler.gl/documentation/l-color-attributes-1.png) ![toggle](https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/kepler.gl/documentation/l-color-attributes-2.png)

3. Your color is applied to your map as soon as you select the predefined palette or confirm the choices of customized colors.

![toggle](https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/kepler.gl/documentation/l-color-attributes-3.png)

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