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How to set a uniform point style

Draw every point on a layer with the same marker, colour, outline, and size. Pick a marker type, set its controls, and click Save.

A uniform point style draws every feature on a point layer the same way, regardless of attributes. Open the layer’s Style tab, choose a marker type, configure the controls available for that marker, and click Save.

See it on an example map

Open the Singapore Style Lab. In the legend, turn on Places — Uniform. Turn off Places — Icons. Every place is an orange circle of one size.

Before you start

Open the Style tab

In the layer panel, select your point layer. Click the Style tab.

Pick the marker type

Marker type is the first dropdown in the Style tab. Pick Circle, Icon, or Custom Icon. Here it is on Circle, with the controls for a single colour below it:

Style section of the Places — Uniform layer with Marker type set to Circle and its preview, Colour markers by set to Single colour, the orange fill colour swatch, the outline colour swatch and outline width slider at 1.5 px, Size markers by set to Uniform size, the size slider at 5 px with the Vary size by zoom level button, and the Save button

For Icon, click Select Icon next to the dropdown. The Select Marker drawer opens. Search or browse by category, pick an icon, and click Save in the drawer.

Select Marker drawer open beside the Places — Icons Style section, with Search markers, the Nature and Transportation icon groups, the Weight dropdown set to Fill, and the Cancel and Save buttons; the panel shows Marker type Icon, the Select Icon button, and the icon rotation slider

For Custom Icon, a Select icon button appears in the same place — click it to open the custom-icon drawer (with upload, replace, and delete affordances). See How to upload a custom point icon.

The marker preview to the left of the dropdown updates when you change a value.

Leave the colour driver on Single colour

The next control is Colour markers by. Default is Single colour — leave it there for a uniform style.

Picking a field instead turns the layer into a category- or quantity-driven style — see How to style features by category or How to style features by quantity. On Circle markers, Colour by zoom changes the colour as viewers zoom — see How to change marker colour by zoom level.

Pick a fill colour

Click the Fill colour swatch. Pick a hex value or a preset chip. The colour applies to every feature on the layer.

For Circle, the colour fills the circle. For Icon, it tints the built-in glyph. An uploaded Custom Icon uses the colours in the image itself.

Set opacity

For Circle and Icon, set the transparency in the Fill colour picker. These markers have no separate opacity slider for a single colour. Use lower opacity when markers overlap.

For Custom Icon, the picker is hidden. Use the Opacity slider or number box below Marker type instead, from 0 to 100%. Switching to Custom Icon sets the opacity to 100%. If you switch back to Circle or Icon, set the transparency again.

(Circle only) Configure the outline

When Marker type is Circle, an Outline colour picker and an Outline width slider (0–6 px) appear next to Fill colour. A thin dark outline helps light-coloured markers stand out on a bright basemap. Set the width to 0 for a pure-fill look.

The outline section is hidden for Icon and Custom Icon marker types — those don’t have a separate stroke.

(Icon only) Set rotation

For Icon marker type, a degree input lets you rotate the icon (range 0–360°, step 5°). Useful when the icon has a directional component (an arrow, a compass marker, a wind indicator). Rotation isn’t available for Custom Icon — the uploaded image is rendered as-is.

Set the size

For Circle and Icon, the size slider controls the marker diameter from 2–50 px. Leave Size markers by on Uniform size to use one size for every marker. You can instead choose a numeric field to make a proportional-symbol map; see How to size points by a number.

For Circle markers, the Vary size by zoom level button next to the slider makes markers grow or shrink as viewers zoom. See How to vary marker size by zoom level.

Size controls are hidden for Custom Icon. To change its global size or size-by field, configure the setting while Circle or Icon is selected, then switch back to Custom Icon. The setting remains applied.

Save

Click Save at the bottom of the panel. The map redraws with the new style.

If you switch tabs or close the panel before clicking Save, your changes are discarded. See Troubleshooting: my style change isn’t appearing on the map if the map doesn’t update.