Icon category · 80 icons

Data and database icons for Power BI

Data icons label where numbers come from: a warehouse, a cloud service, a spreadsheet, an API. A 'data sources' or lineage page is clearer with one icon per source type.

Colour

80 icons

Api

Tabler · MIT · #2563EB

Copy for Power BI

Icon Api =
VAR IconColour = "%232563EB" -- write # as %23 inside a data URI
RETURN
    "data:image/svg+xml;utf8," &
    "<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 24 24' color='" & IconColour & "' fill='none' stroke='" & IconColour & "' stroke-width='2' stroke-linecap='round' stroke-linejoin='round' width='24' height='24'><path d='M4 13h5'/><path d='M12 16v-8h3a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v1a2 2 0 0 1 -2 2h-3'/><path d='M20 8v8'/><path d='M9 16v-5.5a2.5 2.5 0 0 0 -5 0v5.5'/></svg>"

DAX measure and data URI: set the measure's Data category to Image URL. Theme icon JSON: paste its iconsblock into your current theme JSON and import that with Design → Import theme (older builds: View → Themes → Browse for themes), then pick the icon in Conditional formatting → Icons. Importing the icons-only file on its own replaces your theme, so your colours and text styles fall back to Power BI's defaults.

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Theme JSON holds only the icons: merge its icons block into your current theme before importing, or your theme's colours reset.

Add up to 24 icons (for example good / neutral / bad) to export them together.

Using data & databases icons in Power BI

Where data & databases icons earn their place in a report, and how to keep them readable.

Distinguish source types by shape: a cylinder for a database, a cloud for a hosted service, a sheet for a file. Readers trust a number more when they can see where it came from.

Don't use vendor logos for sources. Logos are trademarks and change; a generic database or cloud icon plus the source name in text is safer and lasts.

Power BI tip: Show last refresh with a card bound to a measure like MAX('Refresh Log'[Refreshed At]) and a database icon beside it; a stale date in a card with an icon is more visible than a footer note.

Good uses

Data-source and lineage pages
Refresh status cards
Data dictionary tables
Storage or capacity KPIs

Three steps from this page to your report

01
Pick and colour
Choose one of the data & databases icons below and set its colour to match your theme.
02
Copy the format you need
SVG or PNG for Image visuals and button icons; the DAX measure or data URI for tables, matrices and cards; theme icon JSON for conditional formatting.
03
Bind it in Power BI
For a measure, set Measure tools → Data category to Image URL. For theme icons, import the theme and choose the icon in Conditional formatting → Icons.

Want the icon next to a formatted value with a target colour? The free DAX SVG measure builder draws icon + value cards, and the conditional formatting icons recipe walks through custom icon sets end to end.

Questions about these icons

Can I use these data & databases icons in commercial Power BI reports?

Yes. They come from open-source sets under the MIT or ISC licence (23 from Lucide, 23 from Tabler Icons, 12 from Heroicons, 22 from Fluent UI System Icons), which allow commercial use. Keep the licence notice when you redistribute the icon files themselves; the full texts are on the licence page. Licence texts · licence file (.txt)

Why does my DAX icon show as text?

The measure's Data category must be Image URL (Measure tools → Data category). Also check that every # in the SVG is written as %23, which the copied measure already does.