topic Re: Consistent Colors/Symbology in ArcMap in Mapping Questions

Consistent Colors/Symbology in ArcMap

AnnH — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:59:33 GMT

Hi Guys,

I am wanting to keep the colors consistent for multiple layers. I have a point layer, a line layer, and polygon layer. There are unique individuals, of which have a point, line, and a polygon. Therefore, I want the color of the point, line, and polygon to be same for the unique individual. Is there an easy or straight forward way to do this, as I have 100s of individuals and do not want to manually assign the same color three times.

Thank you all for your help!!

Re: Consistent Colors/Symbology in ArcMap

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 01:46:55 GMT

if the classifications are the same, then choose your color scheme and save your prefered symbology to a layer (*.lyr) which you can load and reuse with similar data values and ranges. Barring that, get your rgb values and use those.

Re: Consistent Colors/Symbology in ArcMap

AnnH — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 01:53:39 GMT

I apologize for my limited knowledge, but how do you save symbology in a way that can be loaded to other layers? Thank you for your help!

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Re: Consistent Colors/Symbology in ArcMap

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 02:07:18 GMT

some links

Save To Layer File—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Importing symbology from another layer—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

And your general symbology stuff in the help topic on the appropriate symbols to use for a given data type etc.

A quick tour of displaying layers—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

good luck