Load bars
Who owns how much, by kind of work.
Definition · Updated Nov 2, 2026
Load bars show how many items each person owns, split by kind, against the team average. Overloaded people and work with no owner stand out. Use it for ownership of agents, prompts, alerts and keys, or any team workload.
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Sample data: items per owner across agents, prompts, eval suites, alert rules and API keys, team average 13.3
- Data shape
- Items per person, split by kind
- Good for
- Ownership, workload, on-call load
- Avoid when
- There is no owner field
- Sizes
- XS, S, M and L, re-laid out from the data
Anatomy
Inspect it like the Figma file.
The same layers, names and tokens as the component. Select one to read its size, fill and style.
Layers
126 / Load bars
- Layer
- part · maya · agents
- Type
- Rectangle
- Size
- 157 × 14
- Fill
- data/cat-2
- Radius
- 2
- Group
- Marks · 43
Layers
126 / Load bars
- Layer
- unowned · 0
- Type
- Rectangle
- Size
- 10 × 10
- Fill
- status/warning
- Radius
- 2
- Group
- Marks · 43
Layers
126 / Load bars
- Layer
- unowned · 0
- Type
- Rectangle
- Size
- 7 × 7
- Fill
- status/warning
- Radius
- 2
- Group
- Marks · 43
Sizes
Re-laid out, never scaled.
The same data at XS, S, M and L. Every size is redrawn from the data, so text and line weights never shrink.
M against S
Width360 px480 px
Plot328 px440 px
Labels2020
Marks4343
Height212 px246 px
Same tokens at every size: text styles, 1 px lines and mark radius stay put.
When to use
Who carries the load.
Three signs it fits, and three signs another type fits better.
Code and Figma
One name in Figma and in code.
Every Figma property is a prop with the same name and values. One command installs it.
Figma
chart/126-load-bars
npx shadcn add @chartory/load-barsimport { LoadBars } from "@/components/chartory/load-bars"import { ownerLoad } from "./owner-load"export function OwnerLoad() { return ( <LoadBars data={ownerLoad} size="m" legend={true} /> )}Hearth widget
Load bars as a widget.
The chart in a Hearth card with a hero number and two blocks. One token set, light and dark.
EmberPreset
ChartoryDefault preset
Pick the blocks, the size and the preset for your own widget.
Read the Hearth widget docsFAQ
Load bars questions.
What people ask before they put load bars in a dashboard.
Something else?
hello@usechartory.comItems nobody owns, listed first so they get picked up. It has its own colour in the legend.
A line across all owners (13.3 items in the sample), so anyone far above it reads as overloaded.
One data object in the sample’s shape: items per person, split by kind. The docs page lists every field and links its JSON Schema; the sample data comes with the component, so you can start from it and swap in your own.
Series take the preset’s data colours in order, and states such as up, down or warning take its status colours. Change the preset in Figma or in code to recolour every chart at once.
XS, S, M and L, in light and dark. Each size is laid out again from the data, so text and lines keep their size.
Yes. It plays in when it scrolls into view, and when the data changes every mark moves from its old place to its new one. With reduced motion on, it does not move.
Yes. The Figma component comes with Figma and Complete, the React component with Code and Complete.
Ask for it by name. The MCP server tells the agent what data it needs and runs the same command: npx shadcn add @chartory/load-bars. You review the diff.
Related types
Other ways to show part of a whole.
The same question, a different shape of answer. Every type ships in Figma and in code.
Same family
Part of a whole
16 types in Chartory answer this question.