{"id":2704162,"date":"2025-02-26T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2704162"},"modified":"2025-02-26T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:03:09","slug":"gradients-along-lines-rather-than-across","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/gradients-along-lines-rather-than-across","title":{"rendered":"Gradients along lines, rather than across"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[26451,28711,31301],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-2704162","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-cartography","tag-styles","tag-symbology","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Here is an outright hack to give a line a gradient along its path rather than across it. Maybe it will come in handy?","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

While there isn’t a direct way to symbolize a line feature in ArcGIS Pro to have a gradient that travels along its length (rather than across its width), there are a handful of workarounds to get you there. If your line is wiggly, you might have to try a more robust method, like split the line up in to equal-length segments and dynamically tie the color to an Arcade script that steps through a sequence of colors to replicate a gradient along the path. BUT, if your lines are straight things get a lot simpler; you just have to think deviously about symbol effects and how to bend them to your cartographic will.<\/p>\n

Here is a quick hack to apply a gradient along a straight line…<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"