Globally customize the appearance of your Power BI reports using themes, including how to adjust visual elements like background colors. Understand the importance of accessible themes designed for users with color vision deficiencies.
Key Insights
- Power BI themes allow users to make global visual changes to reports, such as modifying default background colors across all visuals.
- Accessible themes in Power BI are specifically designed to enhance readability for users with colorblindness by using color palettes with high contrast and distinguishable hues.
- This course's training demonstrates how to tailor a current theme by adjusting settings like transparency to remove unwanted background color and apply design changes report-wide.
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Power BI themes let us globally change the appearance throughout a report. Much like in PowerPoint, where you can go into your master slides and globally make changes, and you can save those things as a theme, we also have themes that we can change, and we can customize in Power BI. For example, I don't like this white background that's been a default for a lot of my visuals.
That's something I can change in the theme. We can go to view our theme in the View tab. Here's our theme.
We can switch between other themes if we want to, completely changing the look of our design. I'm going to go back. All I want to do is keep the current theme, which is one of the default accessible themes.
By the way, accessible themes aim to create different colors, and choose different colors that are going to be accessible for people, even if they are colorblind. Because you have to be careful of the differences between colors. You might not be able to visually see those differences.
If you have, let's say, red-green color blindness, we have to be careful of those sorts of things with the contrast levels. But I want to customize this current theme here. So I'm going to go customize the current theme.
And here I want to change something about my visual. So I go there, and it's the background that I want to change. While I can't choose no color, what I can do is reduce the transparency of the color that's there and get rid of it.
This is kind of like what we had by default as the background of our page, where we didn't want it to be transparent by default. But here I actually do want these to be transparent by default. So there will effectively be no color.
And with that, one change has globally changed our entire document. So anything that you want to change globally, you go in, and you customize that current theme. And you can make those kinds of global changes.