Icon category · 80 icons

Search, filter and settings icons for Power BI

Filter and settings icons open controls: the slicer panel, the sort options, the settings flyout. A report with a hidden filter panel lives or dies by how findable this icon is.

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Using search, filter & settings icons in Power BI

Where search, filter & settings icons earn their place in a report, and how to keep them readable.

Use a funnel for filters and sliders for settings. Readers coming from other apps already know those meanings; don't swap them.

Show an active-filter state. A funnel with a dot or a count when filters are applied tells readers the page is filtered, which prevents a lot of wrong conclusions.

Power BI tip: Build the active-filter dot with a measure: IF(ISFILTERED(Product[Category]) || ISFILTERED('Date'[Year]), <funnel-dot URI>, <funnel URI>) with Data category Image URL, shown in a one-cell table next to the filter button.

Good uses

  • Show / hide slicer panel button
  • Sort toggles
  • Search box labels
  • Settings or options flyouts

Three steps from this page to your report

  1. 01

    Pick and colour

    Choose one of the search, filter & settings icons below and set its colour to match your theme.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 search, filter & settings icons in commercial Power BI reports?

Yes. They come from open-source sets under the MIT or ISC licence (17 from Lucide, 41 from Tabler Icons, 4 from Heroicons, 18 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.

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