How (and why) to set up an Excel 2016 theme for chart design

Setting up an Excel 2016 theme specifically for charting takes a few minutes, but gives you that time back in spades when you're building chart templates and making charts. Setting up themes offers two main time-savers:

• You can choose a font to apply to all of your chart elements. Yes. All of them. Every single one. No more 'I've changed the axes labels, axes titles and the legend out of Calibri already, but I've still got the data labels for all the series to go. . .'     
• You can set a colour palette that will meet most of your charting needs and apply it to multiple chart templates.

Tinter-Shader and Excel Themes for charts

I've been doing some work on designing Excel themes geared towards chart design (which can save a chunk of time later on when designing charts and chart templates), so wanted to give a shout out to Color Tinter-Shader, a free online tool that I've found really useful this week.