Area Chart Maker
An area chart is a line chart with the region below filled in — good for showing volume over time and cumulative totals.
Chart type
Your data4 rows · 3 cols
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Features
What the area chart maker gives you
- Paste CSV, Excel cells, TSV, JSON or a Markdown table
- Live preview — every edit renders instantly, no Generate button
- Export 2x PNG, vector SVG, PDF or copy the image
- Transparent background and five business colour palettes
- No signup, no watermark, nothing uploaded to a server
Use cases
When to use a area chart
- Cumulative revenue or user growth over time
- Stacked composition of a total across periods
- Traffic volume by channel per month
FAQ
Area Chart Maker questions
- When should I use an area chart instead of a line chart?
- Use an area chart when the magnitude or the cumulative total matters. Use a plain line chart when you only care about the trend or need to compare many series precisely.
- Can I make a stacked area chart?
- Yes. With two or more numeric columns you can toggle stacking so the series add up to the total.
- Does it support dates on the x-axis?
- Yes — years, months, quarters, weekdays and ISO dates are all detected automatically.
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Import formats
Paste from anything
- CSV to ChartPaste raw CSV text or drop a .csv file. Delimiters, quoted fields and header rows are detected automatically.
- Excel to ChartSelect cells in Excel, press Ctrl+C, then paste here. Copied spreadsheet cells arrive as tab-separated values, which FastChart reads natively.
- JSON to ChartPaste an array of objects, an array of numbers, or a flat key–value object. Keys become series and values become data points.
- Markdown Table to ChartGreat for tables produced by ChatGPT, GitHub READMEs or Notion. Pipes and the separator row are handled for you.
- TSV to ChartTab-separated values are what your clipboard holds after copying from a spreadsheet or a database client. Paste them straight in.
- Google Sheets to ChartGoogle Sheets charts are hard to style and hard to export cleanly. Copy the range instead and get an export-ready chart here.
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