I want to set transparency to the background of an area chart using openpyxl. The code I have for the chart is: from openpyxl.drawing.fill import PatternFillProperties, ColorChoice c2 = AreaChart() c2.grouping = 'stacked' c2.add_data(data, titles_from_data=True) c2_s1 = c2.series[0] fill = PatternFillProperties() fill.background = ColorChoice(srgbClr="FFFFFF") c2_s2.graphicalProperties.pattFill = fill I have tried using rgba hexadecimal encoding. fill.background = ColorChoice(srgbClr="80FFFFFF") I have also try to use SystemColor but I could not find any example of how to use it and every attempt I made was unsuccessful Continue reading...