• A multi-color bar chart with a gradient background color and soft lighting effects.

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• A multi-color bar chart with a gradient background color and glass lighting effects.
• All axes are hidden and only the axis labels are shown.
• Note this chart is configured to be symmetrical. There are axis labels on both the left and right sides.

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• A multi-color bar chart with a brushed silver background and cylindrical bars.
• Note this chart is configured to be symmetrical. There are axis labels on both the left and right sides.

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• A percentage bar chart in which the bars are automatically scaled to stacked up to 100%.
• Note the legend keys contain icons. They are created using ChartDirector Mark Up Language (CDML).

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• A percentage bar chart taken from a real life application.
• Note that x-axis labels. They are rotated by 45 degrees to avoid overlapping.

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• A multi-bar chart configured to use different bar shapes for data series.
• Note the legend keys. They reflect both the shapes and the colors.

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• A multi-bar chart configured to use cylindrical bars.

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• A multi-bar chart configured with overlapping bars.

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• The bar chart is colored using "zone colors". Zone colors are colors that changes abruptly at user-defined threshold positions.
• The background, bar and label colors of this chart uses three zone colors with thresholds at y = 0.

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• A horizontal bar chart with axes and grid lines hidden. Data values are shown using text labels instead.
• Note the bars are gradient colored. The color changes smoothly from dark green on the left to white on the right.

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• This chart is created using a bar layer and a box-whisker layer. The box-whisker layer is configured to show the whisker only, and this creates the marks.

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• This chart demonstrates the mark and zone features of ChartDirector.
• The red, yellow and green background regions are user-defined zones. The "Alert" and "Watch" lines are user defined marks.
• The bars are configured with rasied borders and touch each others, so there are no gaps between bars.