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Florence is a canvas-based tool for building charts and the layouts around them — headlines, footnotes, legends, images — in one place. It is for journalists, designers, and anyone who needs a finished graphic without jumping to Figma for the frame around the chart. Unlike Datawrapper or Flourish, Florence is not built around a single chart. You compose a full graphic on a responsive frame, then export or publish it as a unit. Florence is in Private Beta. Access is invite-only. Log in with the email you were invited on at heyflorence.app. You will get a magic link.

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Your first graphic

  1. Open or create a project from the dashboard.
  2. In the left sidebar, open the Data view (or stay on the canvas and use the Datasets tab). Click + New dataset → Upload file and choose a CSV or TSV. You can also start from Blank dataset and paste from a spreadsheet, or pick a sample dataset to try the tool.
  3. Back on the canvas, insert a frame from the insert panel (I), then insert a chart — Insert → Charts → Column chart.
  4. Select the chart. In the Properties panel, link your dataset and map X and Y.
  5. Add a heading, a legend, or a divider if you want the frame to read as a finished graphic.
  6. Select the frame. In Export, choose PNG, SVG, or PDF and download. Or open Share to publish a view link.
That is the whole loop: dataset → frame → blocks → export or publish.

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The editor at a glance

Three regions around an infinite canvas:
  • Left — Layers (everything on the canvas, in order), Assets (styles, templates, themes, brand kits), and Datasets. The insert panel lives here too.
  • Canvas — Frames sit here. Pan with Space+drag. Zoom with ⌘ + / ⌘ -, ⌘ 0 to fit, ⌘ 1 for 100%.
  • Right — the Properties panel. It changes with your selection: frame, block, or a single chart element.
Switch between Canvas, Data, and Preview in the top-left view tabs.

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If you get stuck

Use Feedback (bottom right, or file menu → Send feedback). Say what you were trying to do and what happened. Toggle bug vs feature request — both are useful. Open Help any time for the short version of these pages.