Use your own shapes on Tableau

As I was doing the redesign project the other day, I found the need for me to introduce some new shapes into the sheets. Therefore I designed my own vector graphs through online tools like Vectr, and followed this article inserted those graphs in “png” file type into Tableau. The final result was displayed in designated color.

Also I discovered a tip, that when you want to make a parameter into shapes, you just simply drag it across the shapes feature in “marks” to the blank board below, choose the shapes from multiple categories, including the one you have just inserted(if it’s not there, try the reload button).

You can also look for existing png files online and insert them to Tableau instead of making them by yourselves. Using customized shapes will make your visualization more unique and specific to the data you want to present. Below it’s a simple example from me:

(The png files are located in “My Tableau Repository/Shapes/Gender”)

(This is where to find the customized shapes and use it in sheets)

Hope it helps!