diff --git a/tscli/main.go b/tscli/main.go
index 268db3c..61ebc2c 100644
--- a/tscli/main.go
+++ b/tscli/main.go
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ func executeQuery(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 
 	tsi := GoogleCloudMonitoringClient.ListTimeSeries(context.Background(), request)
 	// todo: handle multiple time series
-	plot, err := tsplot.NewPlotFromTimeSeriesIterator(tsi, "classification")
+	plot, err := tsplot.NewPlotFromTimeSeriesIterator(tsi, "classification", tsplot.WithXTimeTicks(time.Kitchen), tsplot.WithTitle("decodes"), tsplot.WithXAxisName("UTC"))
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/tsplot/color_palettes.go b/tsplot/color_palettes.go
index a002407..ce09289 100644
--- a/tsplot/color_palettes.go
+++ b/tsplot/color_palettes.go
@@ -8,8 +8,21 @@ import (
 
 var usedColors = make(map[string]color.RGBA)
 
+// simple colors (subset of golang.org/x/image/colornames)
+var availableColors = map[string]color.RGBA{
+	"blue":    color.RGBA{0x00, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff}, // rgb(0, 0, 255)
+	"brown":   color.RGBA{0xa5, 0x2a, 0x2a, 0xff}, // rgb(165, 42, 42)
+	"orange":  color.RGBA{0xff, 0xa5, 0x00, 0xff}, // rgb(255, 165, 0)
+	"hotpink": color.RGBA{0xff, 0x69, 0xb4, 0xff}, // rgb(255, 105, 180)
+	"red":     color.RGBA{0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff}, // rgb(255, 0, 0)
+	"purple":  color.RGBA{0x80, 0x00, 0x80, 0xff}, // rgb(128, 0, 128)
+	"yellow":  color.RGBA{0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0xff}, // rgb(255, 255, 0)
+	"green":   color.RGBA{0x00, 0x80, 0x00, 0xff}, // rgb(0, 128, 0)
+
+}
+
 func getUnusedColor() color.RGBA {
-	for k, v := range colornames.Map {
+	for k, v := range availableColors {
 		if _, ok := usedColors[k]; !ok {
 			usedColors[k] = v
 			return v
diff --git a/tsplot/plot.go b/tsplot/plot.go
index 4223b03..eae5cec 100644
--- a/tsplot/plot.go
+++ b/tsplot/plot.go
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 package tsplot
 
 import (
-	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3/v2"
 	"fmt"
+
+	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3/v2"
 	"gonum.org/v1/plot"
 	"gonum.org/v1/plot/plotter"
 	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ func NewPlotFromTimeSeries(ts *monitoringpb.TimeSeries, opts ...PlotOption) (*pl
 	return p, nil
 }
 
-func NewPlotFromTimeSeriesIterator(tsi *monitoring.TimeSeriesIterator, groupByLabel string, opts ...PlotOption) (*plot.Plot, error) {
+func NewPlotFromTimeSeriesIterator(tsi *monitoring.TimeSeriesIterator, legendKey string, opts ...PlotOption) (*plot.Plot, error) {
 	p := plot.New()
 	for {
 		timeSeries, err := tsi.Next()
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ func NewPlotFromTimeSeriesIterator(tsi *monitoring.TimeSeriesIterator, groupByLa
 		// add to legend
 		legendEntry, _ := plotter.NewPolygon()
 		legendEntry.Color = lineColor
-		p.Legend.Add(timeSeries.GetMetric().GetLabels()[groupByLabel], legendEntry)
+		p.Legend.Add(timeSeries.GetMetric().GetLabels()[legendKey], legendEntry)
 
 		p.Y.Max = 400 // todo: make dynamic according to data
 	}
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ func createLine(dataPoints []*monitoringpb.Point) (*plotter.Line, error) {
 	var XYs plotter.XYs
 	for _, point := range dataPoints {
 		x := point.GetInterval().GetEndTime().GetSeconds()
-		y := point.GetValue().GetDoubleValue() // todo: This breaks if the valuetype is an int64
+		y := point.GetValue().GetDoubleValue() // todo: This breaks if the value type is an int64
 		XYs = append(XYs, plotter.XY{
 			X: float64(x),
 			Y: y,