Excel VBA color bar

Color scale or color bar is a color gradient color bar. The VBA code in the attached file can be used to create 3-colors color bar and 2-colors color bar. It also can generate horizontal and vertical color bars as well.

In this function you have define the following:

[1] Orientation of the color bar: horizontal "H" or vertical "V"
[2] The parent frame which will be the color bar container
[3] The element size (step) in pixels. The smaller the element size, the smoother gradient is achieved

[4] Red channel value of color 1
[5] Green channel value of color 1
[6] Blue channel value of color 1

[7] Red channel value of color 2
[8] Green channel value of color 2
[9] Blue channel value of color 2

[10] Red channel value of color 3
[11] Green channel value of color 3
[12] Blue channel value of color 3

[13] Color 2 position as a fraction of the color bar size

The color bar is simply created by creating dynamic labels with interpolated color. Each color channel is interpolated using linear interpolation.

The following are some color bars generated using the function

You can download the code from this link


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