--- title: Vector styling description: When styling a vector layer, you can customize your data by property, such as size and color. For each property, you can specify whether to use a constant... url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze/visualize/maps/vector-style products: - Kibana applies_to: - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available - Elastic Stack: Generally available --- # Vector styling When styling a vector layer, you can customize your data by property, such as size and color. For each property, you can specify whether to use a constant or data driven value for the style. ## Static styling Use static styling to specify a constant value for a style property. This image shows an example of static styling using the [Kibana sample web logs](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze) data set. The **kibana_sample_data_logs** layer uses static styling for all properties. ![vector style static](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze/images/kibana-vector_style_static.png) ## Data driven styling Use data driven styling to symbolize features by property values. To enable data driven styling for a style property, change the selected value from **Fixed** or **Solid** to **By value**. This image shows an example of data driven styling using the [Kibana sample web logs](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze) data set. The **kibana_sample_data_logs** layer uses data driven styling for fill color and symbol size style properties. - The `hour_of_day` property determines the fill color for each feature based on where the value fits on a linear scale. Light green circles symbolize documents that occur earlier in the day, and dark green circles symbolize documents that occur later in the day. - The `bytes` property determines the size of each symbol based on where the value fits on a linear scale. Smaller circles symbolize documents with smaller payloads, and larger circles symbolize documents with larger payloads. ![vector style dynamic](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze/images/kibana-vector_style_dynamic.png) ## Quantitative data driven styling Quantitative data driven styling symbolizes features from a range of numeric property values. Property values are fit from the domain range to the style range on a linear scale. For example, let’s symbolize [Kibana sample web log](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze) documents by size. The sample web logs `bytes` field ranges from 0 to 18,000. This is the domain range. The smallest feature has a symbol radius of 1, and the largest feature has a symbol radius of 24. This is the style range. The `bytes` property value for each feature will fit on a linear scale from the range of 0 to 18,000 to the style range of 1 to 24. For color styles, values are fit from the domain range to the color ramp with one of the following: - **Interpolate (default)**. Interpolate values between min and max to a color band on a linear scale. The color ramp is divided into eight bands. - **Percentiles**. Use percentiles to divide the color ramp into bands that map to values. - **Custom**. Define custom color ramp bands and ranges. When the property value is undefined for a feature: - **Fill color** and **Border color** are set to transparent and are not visible. - **Border width** and **Symbol size** are set to the minimum size. - **Symbol orientation** is set to 0. When the symbol range minimum and maximum are the same and there is no range: - **Fill color** and **Border color** are set to last color in the color ramp. - **Border width** and **Symbol size** are set to the maximum size. ## Qualitative data driven styling Qualitative data driven styling symbolizes properties, such as strings and IP addresses, by category. Qualitative data driven styling is available for the following styling properties: - **Icon** - **Fill color** - **Border color** - **Label color** - **Label border color** This image shows an example of quantitative data driven styling using the [Kibana sample web logs](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze) data set. The `machine.os.keyword` property determines the color of each symbol based on category. ![quantitative data driven styling](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze/images/kibana-quantitative_data_driven_styling.png) ## Class styling Class styling symbolizes features by class and requires multiple layers. Use [layer filtering](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze/visualize/maps/maps-layer-based-filtering) to define the class for each layer, and [static styling](#maps-vector-style-static) to symbolize each class. This image shows an example of class styling using the [Kibana sample web logs](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze) data set. - The **Mac OS requests** layer applies the filter `machine.os : osx` so the layer only contains Mac OS requests. The fill color is a static value of green. - The **Window OS requests** layer applies the filter `machine.os : win*` so the layer only contains Window OS requests. The fill color is a static value of red. ![vector style class](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/explore-analyze/images/kibana-vector_style_class.png)