Dark Power BI theme

Grid Current Power BI theme

Dark utilities Power BI theme for grid and network operations: electric mint lead on a blue-black page, pink, blue and orange series, high contrast.

By · Founder & Reliability Engineer · Updated

Free for commercial use
Grid Current theme applied to the Energy Consumption template

Shown on the Energy Consumption template.

Power BI Desktop: Design ribbon → Import theme. Power BI service: View → Theme pane.

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About the palette

Grid Current is a network-operations look: a blue-black page #07141A, cards #0E1F27 and an electric mint #3EE0B0 lead. Hot pink #FF6FA8 and signal blue #5AA9FF come second and third, chosen so load, forecast and outage series are separable at a glance on a wall display.

Status colours sit outside the series list where possible (good #5FE08A, neutral #FFD24C, bad #FF6F61), and text #E6F4F1 reaches 14.9:1 on the cards. For smart-meter or substation pages with many feeders, the eighth series #7FDBFF is a pale cyan that stays readable as a thin line.

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.
  • Wall displays and dark-mode screens: text at 14.9:1 and every chart colour at 6.5:1 or more on the cards.
  • Variance charts, waterfalls and KPI deltas: good #5FE08A and bad #FF6F61 are 135° apart in hue.

Colour-vision simulation

  • Protanopia: series 3 and 5 (#5AA9FF, #C792EA)
  • Tritanopia: series 2 and 4 (#FF6FA8, #FF8A5B)
  • Give those series data labels or direct labels instead of relying on the legend.
Chart colours
8, in 6 hue families
Lightness range
56–75 %
Text contrast
14.9:1
Muted text
7.5:1
Weakest chart colour
6.5:1 on cards
Near-grey series
0

Colours and contrast

Contrast ratios are measured against the card (surface) colour, where visuals sit. Text needs 4.5:1; graphics need 3:1.

Theme colours and contrast against the card colour
RoleColourContrast on cardCheck
Page background#07141A—base
Card / surface#0E1F27—base
Text#E6F4F114.93:1AA text
Muted text#98B3AE7.55:1AA text
Accent#3EE0B010.04:1≥ 3:1
Good#5FE08A10.06:1≥ 3:1
Neutral#FFD24C11.72:1≥ 3:1
Bad#FF6F616.19:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 1#3EE0B010.04:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 2#FF6FA86.50:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 3#5AA9FF6.88:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 4#FF8A5B7.27:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 5#C792EA7.02:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 6#A3E35A11.01:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 7#FFD24C11.72:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 8#7FDBFF10.84:1≥ 3:1

Theme JSON excerpt

The downloaded file also includes text classes, visual styles and slicer, table and card defaults.

grid-current-theme.json
{
  "name": "Grid Current",
  "dataColors": [
    "#3EE0B0",
    "#FF6FA8",
    "#5AA9FF",
    "#FF8A5B",
    "#C792EA",
    "#A3E35A",
    "#FFD24C",
    "#7FDBFF"
  ],
  "background": "#07141A",
  "foreground": "#E6F4F1",
  "tableAccent": "#3EE0B0",
  "good": "#5FE08A",
  "neutral": "#FFD24C",
  "bad": "#FF6F61"
}

Import this theme in Power BI Desktop

  1. 1

    Download the theme

    Use the Download theme JSON button above. The file is a few kilobytes and contains no images.

  2. 2

    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. 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. 4

    Add a matching background

    Open the design studio with Grid Current 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 Grid Current colours.

Area chart · 784×200 px

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Brief sent to the generator (you can edit it there)

A Power BI area visual titled "Consumption by hour". It sits in a 784×200 px slot on a designed report page. Match the report's brand: data colours #3EE0B0, #FF6FA8, #5AA9FF, #FF8A5B, #C792EA, #A3E35A; background #0E1F27; text #E6F4F1; font Segoe UI. Transparent visual background so the page design shows through; no visual border. The report uses the Grid Current Power BI theme.

Templates in this theme

Backgrounds to pair with Grid Current

Dark page backgrounds that sit well under this palette. Each background page has its own theme download, or keep Grid Current and set the background image on top.

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.

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Questions about this theme

Is the Grid Current 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 2 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 Grid Current theme use?

It uses Bahnschrift for headings and Segoe UI for body text. 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 Grid Current

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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