How to Set Up Custom Branding in the Power BI Service

In this post, we will look at how to set up custom branding for your organization in Power BI.

First, let’s log into the Power BI service at https://app.powerbi.com/ and select Settings->Admin Portal:

Select Custom Branding in the menu:

We can see there are 3 ways we can brand Power BI:

• Logo
• Cover image
• Theme color

Let’s look at each one of these.

For the logo, the size should be at least 200×30 pixels. Let’s create a simple logo like below, of size 285×83 pixels. We will save this as a png file:

The Cover Image is recommended to be at least 1920×160 pixels. Let’s use the image below, which are those exact dimensions. It is recommended to save this as a png or jpg. We will use png:

Upload both using the Upload buttons:

The theme color defaults to #323130. Let’s make it a bright pink color so we can see it clearly in Power BI:

We can now Preview or Publish the theme. Let’s preview it:

We can see the custom image text is cut off, so you will want to take this into account :

Let’s adjust the text so it is higher and try again. Uploading the new image:

Click Publish and Publish again:

Click OK and Refresh your browser:

The new branding has been applied:

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Carl de Souza is a developer and architect focusing on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power BI, Azure, and AI.

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