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Free online T charts

Compare ideas, solutions, and more with Canva’s free T-chart maker. Start designing a T chart today with our whiteboard templates, infinite canvas, and chart building tools.
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Create a T chart online

Easily compare two aspects of your subject when you list them in a T-chart graphic organizer. Make one in just minutes with Canva’s T-chart maker, where you can start by choosing a free T-chart template, then editing it straight away in your Canva whiteboard. Our array of visualization tools and design elements help you and your team easily make a T-chart online, all in an unlimited canvas space.

Infinite space made for unlimited ideas

Professionally designed templates to fast-track your workflow

Share and ideate with anyone, anytime, on any device

Run a workshop with whiteboard elements, sticky notes, and a timer

Embed your T chart in Docs, presentations, and more easily

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How to make a T chart

How to make a T chart
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Launch Canva

Open Canva on your desktop or mobile app. Look for “T Chart” on the search bar to start a whiteboard design.

Choose a T chart template

Browse our selection of free T-chart templates customizable for any topic and theme. If you prefer, you can start from scratch with a blank T-chart design.

Analyze your topic

Study your subject and begin identifying its characteristics according to your two categories. Take note of them as you proceed with building your chart.

Use whiteboard tools and elements

Fill your T-chart with your information and change its size, colors, and fonts. Drag and drop design elements from our library, or sketch them by hand using the Draw tool.

Share and ideate

Share a link to your T-chart and refine it with your team. Drop comments and stickies and host sync sessions with a timer. Then, present your whiteboard or continually update it as you go.
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Open Canva on your desktop or mobile app. Look for “T Chart” on the search bar to start a whiteboard design.

Browse our selection of free T-chart templates customizable for any topic and theme. If you prefer, you can start from scratch with a blank T-chart design.

Study your subject and begin identifying its characteristics according to your two categories. Take note of them as you proceed with building your chart.

Fill your T-chart with your information and change its size, colors, and fonts. Drag and drop design elements from our library, or sketch them by hand using the Draw tool.

Share a link to your T-chart and refine it with your team. Drop comments and stickies and host sync sessions with a timer. Then, present your whiteboard or continually update it as you go.
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What is a T chart?

T charts are used to compare two facets of a given topic by listing details about it in two separate columns. The topic can be anything at all – an idea, a proposal, or something that you’re writing or researching. Students, teachers, and professionals alike can use a T-chart to compare pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, or facts and opinions.

Why use T charts?

T-charts overview

T-charts can be used as a simple graphic organizer where your information is put together side by side. Using this, you can quickly draw connections between two different details, as well as find any differences and similarities between them. This also makes it easier for your audience to digest your information when you’re presenting.


By listing points side by side like this, it gives you and your readers a quick, at-a-glance overview of the facts being presented and helps to make decisions or arrive at conclusions quicker and easier.

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Customize your T-chart design on our whiteboard

Our design tools make creating T-charts easy. Just choose a design from our templates library then customize it in your whiteboard. Quickly add lines, shapes, and text using our keyboard shortcuts, with more actions available when you type “/”. With our collaborative tools—sticky notes(opens in a new tab or window), comments, and a built-in timer—work on your T-chart with teams, then come back anytime for any changes.

Assign clear and elegant labels

Edit the font style of your T-chart label

Customize default titles and headings text boxes from your T-chart template to make them truly yours. Simply click and edit them to change their font style, size, and color via the Text tool in the sidebar. You can also choose to add Bold, Italic or Underline formatting to your text or align it any way you wish—left, right or center.

Add some style to your T chart

Drag and drop elements to style your T-charts

Don’t limit your creativity—switch up the shapes and the color palette of your T-chart to the style you prefer. Canva Whiteboards has all sorts of different elements you can use to style up your T-chart. From our massive media library of more than a million design elements, you can add a background, use graphics and images, turn Text to Image(opens in a new tab or window), or Draw(opens in a new tab or window) to represent the topic you’re working on.

Add context to your data

Add context to your T-charts

With your whiteboard’s infinite canvas, have the space you need to expound on your points. In your T-chart, insert context-providing visual aids by embedding links of your existing Canva infographics, presentations, and more. To keep your T-charts clutter-free, you can also opt to hyperlink important pages to your text.

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“When it came to design reports, Canva had a wide variety of simple easy to use templates that allowed me to easily plug in my graphs and information, and helped me to focus on the actual content instead of spending hours and hours on design.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

Are you trying to make a decision, or comparing two aspects of your topic, whether you’re in business, at work, or in school? Listing them down in a T-chart can help you assess them better. This gives you the chance to see the facts at a glance and weigh them out thoroughly. Make a T-chart online with our whiteboard tools and features.

Simply head on over to canva.com to make a T-chart. You don’t need to download any software—just create an account and log in. If you want to design on the go, download our free Canva app from the App Store or the Play Store.

After creating your design, you can choose to download a copy of your printable T-chart by going to the Download button on the upper right corner of the toolbar. Click on it and choose the file type you prefer from JPG, PNG, PDF Standard, or PDF Print that renders your design at 300 DPI which is the highest quality file format we perfect for print.

It can be useful to share your T-chart design with a colleague who might be able to add their own points or comment on your design. To share your T-chart, simply click the Share button on your whiteboard’s toolbar and invite them via email or by sending them a link. You can give them access to either edit or simply view your design.

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