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Shape icons for Power BI

Shapes carry no meaning on their own, which is why they're useful: legend markers, category glyphs and custom icon sets where you decide what a triangle stands for.

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Using shapes & geometry icons in Power BI

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

Shapes are a good second channel for colour. A blue circle and an orange triangle stay distinct for readers who can't tell the colours apart; two coloured circles do not.

Assign shapes in a fixed order and write it down (circle, square, triangle, diamond). New series then get the next shape without a debate.

Power BI tip: Line and scatter charts already offer marker shapes (Format → Markers → Shape); use the same shapes from this page in tables and cards so the legend carries across visuals.

Good uses

  • Custom legend markers
  • Category glyphs in tables
  • Colour-blind-safe series markers
  • Decorative dividers and bullets

Three steps from this page to your report

  1. 01

    Pick and colour

    Choose one of the shapes & geometry 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 shapes & geometry icons in commercial Power BI reports?

Yes. They come from open-source sets under the MIT or ISC licence (26 from Lucide, 25 from Tabler Icons, 4 from Heroicons, 25 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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