Light Power BI theme
Boardroom Blue Power BI theme
A light corporate Power BI theme: white cards on cool grey with a confident royal-blue lead colour and eight distinct data colours. Download the theme JSON.
By Nawaf Sharaf · Founder & Reliability Engineer · Updated
Free for commercial use
Shown on the Executive KPI Scorecard template.
Power BI Desktop: Design ribbon → Import theme. Power BI service: View → Theme pane.
About the palette
Boardroom Blue is the safe default for a company-wide report: white visual surfaces on a #F3F5F9 page give charts a crisp edge without a border, and the royal blue lead colour reads as trustworthy on a projector and in a printed PDF. The eight data colours step around the wheel (blue, sky, teal, violet, amber, red, slate, pink) so a stacked column with six series stays legible.
Use it when stakeholders span several departments and nobody owns the brand decision. Good, neutral and bad are a darker green, amber and red than the data colours so KPI deltas don't get confused with a series colour.
Pair it with a sidebar or top-bar template and keep the accent for one thing per page: the active slicer state or the headline KPI. Spreading blue across every title dilutes it quickly.
Palette profile
Computed from the colours on this page, not written by hand: hue spread, lightness range, contrast and a colour-vision simulation of the first six chart colours.
Best for
- Clustered and stacked charts with up to six series (6 hue families); add data labels to the pairs listed below.
- Thin line charts and sparklines on white cards: every chart colour reaches 3.3:1 or more.
- Variance charts, waterfalls and KPI deltas: good #15803D and bad #DC2626 are 142° apart in hue.
Colour-vision simulation
- Protanopia: series 1 and 4 (#2563EB, #8B5CF6)
- Deuteranopia: series 1 and 4 (#2563EB, #8B5CF6); series 5 and 6 (#BF7B09, #EF4444)
- Tritanopia: series 2 and 3 (#0D95D2, #119B8B)
- Give those series data labels or direct labels instead of relying on the legend.
- Chart colours
- 8, in 6 hue families
- Lightness range
- 34–66 %
- Text contrast
- 16.3:1
- Muted text
- 5.8:1
- Weakest chart colour
- 3.3:1 on cards
- Near-grey series
- 1
- Closest catalog palettes
- Lavender SaaS (0.065)Lilac Haze (0.068)Clear Sight (0.073)
Colours and contrast
Contrast ratios are measured against the card (surface) colour, where visuals sit. Text needs 4.5:1; graphics need 3:1.
| Role | Colour | Contrast on card | Check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page background | #F3F5F9 | — | base |
| Card / surface | #FFFFFF | — | base |
| Text | #0F172A | 17.85:1 | AA text |
| Muted text | #526075 | 6.39:1 | AA text |
| Accent | #2563EB | 5.17:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Good | #15803D | 5.02:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Neutral | #B45309 | 5.02:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Bad | #DC2626 | 4.83:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 1 | #2563EB | 5.17:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 2 | #0D95D2 | 3.36:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 3 | #119B8B | 3.45:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 4 | #8B5CF6 | 4.23:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 5 | #BF7B09 | 3.47:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 6 | #EF4444 | 3.76:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 7 | #64748B | 4.76:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 8 | #EC4899 | 3.53:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
Theme JSON excerpt
The downloaded file also includes text classes, visual styles and slicer, table and card defaults.
{
"name": "Boardroom Blue",
"dataColors": [
"#2563EB",
"#0D95D2",
"#119B8B",
"#8B5CF6",
"#BF7B09",
"#EF4444",
"#64748B",
"#EC4899"
],
"background": "#F3F5F9",
"foreground": "#0F172A",
"tableAccent": "#2563EB",
"good": "#15803D",
"neutral": "#B45309",
"bad": "#DC2626"
}Import this theme in Power BI Desktop
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Download the theme
Use the Download theme JSON button above. The file is a few kilobytes and contains no images.
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Import the theme
In Power BI Desktop open the Design ribbon → Import theme and select the file. In the Power BI service use View → Theme pane. Older Desktop builds: View → Themes → Browse for themes.
- 3
Check visual overrides
Visuals with manually set colours keep them. Use Format → Reset to default on those visuals to pick up the theme.
- 4
Add a matching background
Open the design studio with Boardroom Blue selected to build a page background in the same colours.
VizForge AI · custom visuals
Generate a custom visual for this slot
Need a chart Power BI doesn't have? Pick a slot from the sample report above and VizForge AI writes a custom visual (.pbiviz, with TypeScript source) sized to it and drawn in the Boardroom Blue colours.
Line & column chart · 728×200 px
1, 2 or 5 credits depending on the brief · 5 free on signup. Sign in or create a free account on the next screen; the brief is saved for 30 minutes.
A Power BI combo visual titled "Revenue vs target by month". Purpose: Columns for monthly revenue, line for target. It sits in a 728×200 px slot on a designed report page. Match the report's brand: data colours #2563EB, #0D95D2, #119B8B, #8B5CF6, #BF7B09, #EF4444; background #FFFFFF; text #0F172A; font Segoe UI. Transparent visual background so the page design shows through; no visual border. The report uses the Boardroom Blue Power BI theme.
Templates in this theme
Backgrounds to pair with Boardroom Blue
Light page backgrounds that sit well under this palette. Each background page has its own theme download, or keep Boardroom Blue and set the background image on top.
1280×720 background
Clean Light Card GridFree light Power BI background image: soft white cards on cool grey with a title area, a KPI row and a 2×2 chart grid. PNG at 1920×1080 or 1280×720, or SVG.
1280×720 background
Sunset Gradient HeaderLight Power BI background with an orange-to-coral gradient header band and white cards: five KPIs, a full-width trend and three panels.
Need a chart Power BI doesn’t ship?
Theme colours apply to custom visuals too. Describe the chart in plain English and VizForge generates it as a .pbiviz with its TypeScript source; in the design studio, the brief for a visual slot carries this palette. See the visual catalog.
Generate a custom visual with AI · starts free →Questions about this theme
Is the Boardroom Blue theme accessible?
Yes. Text and muted text meet WCAG AA (4.5:1) on both the page and card colours, and every data and status colour reaches at least 3:1 against the cards. In a colour-vision simulation 4 pairs among the first six chart colours look alike; the palette profile lists them so you can add data labels. The full contrast table is on this page.
Which fonts does the Boardroom Blue theme use?
It uses Segoe UI. All of them are in Power BI's own font list, so the report renders the same in Power BI Desktop and in the Power BI service.
How do I import a theme JSON into Power BI?
In Power BI Desktop go to the Design ribbon → Import theme and select the downloaded .json file; in the Power BI service use View → Theme pane (older Desktop builds: View → Themes → Browse for themes). The data colours, text classes and visual defaults apply to every page of the report.
Which theme JSON schema do these themes use?
They are compiled against the current report theme schema (reportThemeSchema-2.159) and include name, dataColors, background, foreground, tableAccent, good/neutral/bad, textClasses and visualStyles.
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Design a page in Boardroom Blue
Start the design studio with this palette, lay out your page and export a background, the theme JSON and a PBIP project that all match.
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