Using, Loading and Creating Report Themes in Power BI

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In Power BI, report authors can use themes in reports to keep the color palette consistent across visualizations. Let’s look at how to use themes.

Below is a pretty simple report. Note in the navigation bar there is the Switch Themes button:

Clicking it, we see there are several themes available, including:

  • Default
  • City park
  • Classroom
  • Colorblind safe
  • Electric
  • High contrast
  • Sunset
  • Twilight

We are currently set to the default theme. Let’s change to City park. Note that the colors of each visualization change:

Let’s look at the other themes.

Classroom:

Colorblind Safe:

Electric:

High Contrast:

Sunset:

Twilight:

Themes are available from the Theme Gallery, located at https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Themes-Gallery/bd-p/ThemesGallery:

To install a theme, select it:

Then find the JSON file and download it:

The JSON file defines the colors for the theme:

Back in Power BI Desktop, select to Import the theme:

Select the downloaded JSON file. The theme will be imported:

And installed:

To create your own theme, follow the same format in a JSON file with your own color scheme. It’s an easy way to apply a consistent look to corporate reports.

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