Dark Power BI theme
Obsidian Gold Power BI theme
Luxury dark Power BI theme: obsidian page, champagne gold lead colour and ivory, bronze and steel data colours for wealth and premium brand reports.
By Nawaf Sharaf · Founder & Reliability Engineer · Updated
Free for commercial use
Shown on the CFO Overview template.
Power BI Desktop: Design ribbon → Import theme. Power BI service: View → Theme pane.
About the palette
Obsidian Gold is a black-and-gold theme that avoids the usual pitfall of gold on black (muddy mid-tones): the gold is a pale champagne (#E3C46E) with 11:1 contrast on the page, and the comparison colours are ivory, bronze, steel blue, muted teal and dusty rose so the gold stays special.
It suits wealth management, private banking, hospitality and premium retail reporting, and board decks where the brand is black-and-gold already.
Keep good as the soft green and bad as the muted red; saturated status colours look cheap against champagne.
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
- Pages with three or four series: the chart colours come from only 4 hue families, so beyond four categories use a table or small multiples.
- Highlight-one-series charts: #E3C46E for the measure you're talking about, 2 near-grey series for comparisons.
- Greyscale printing and PDF board packs: the chart colours span 49–93 % lightness, so bars stay apart without colour.
- Wall displays and dark-mode screens: text at 15.8:1 and every chart colour at 5.1:1 or more on the cards.
- Variance charts, waterfalls and KPI deltas: good #7FC99A and bad #D9736D are 139° apart in hue.
Colour-vision simulation
- Protanopia: series 4 and 5 (#7F98B5, #5EA8A0); series 4 and 6 (#7F98B5, #C98C9A); series 5 and 6 (#5EA8A0, #C98C9A)
- Deuteranopia: series 4 and 5 (#7F98B5, #5EA8A0); series 5 and 6 (#5EA8A0, #C98C9A)
- Tritanopia: series 4 and 5 (#7F98B5, #5EA8A0)
- Give those series data labels or direct labels instead of relying on the legend.
- Chart colours
- 8, in 4 hue families
- Lightness range
- 49–93 %
- Text contrast
- 15.8:1
- Muted text
- 7.2:1
- Weakest chart colour
- 5.1:1 on cards
- Near-grey series
- 2
- Closest catalog palettes
- Moss and Stone (0.070)Desert Dusk (0.072)Velvet Wine (0.074)
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 | #0A0A0C | — | base |
| Card / surface | #151518 | — | base |
| Text | #F2EFE6 | 15.85:1 | AA text |
| Muted text | #A8A392 | 7.22:1 | AA text |
| Accent | #E3C46E | 10.75:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Good | #7FC99A | 9.31:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Neutral | #E3C46E | 10.75:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Bad | #D9736D | 5.75:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 1 | #E3C46E | 10.75:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 2 | #F2EFE6 | 15.85:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 3 | #B07D4A | 5.10:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 4 | #7F98B5 | 6.13:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 5 | #5EA8A0 | 6.58:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 6 | #C98C9A | 6.68:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 7 | #8E8E99 | 5.62:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
| Data colour 8 | #D4B483 | 9.25:1 | ≥ 3:1 |
Theme JSON excerpt
The downloaded file also includes text classes, visual styles and slicer, table and card defaults.
{
"name": "Obsidian Gold",
"dataColors": [
"#E3C46E",
"#F2EFE6",
"#B07D4A",
"#7F98B5",
"#5EA8A0",
"#C98C9A",
"#8E8E99",
"#D4B483"
],
"background": "#0A0A0C",
"foreground": "#F2EFE6",
"tableAccent": "#E3C46E",
"good": "#7FC99A",
"neutral": "#E3C46E",
"bad": "#D9736D"
}Import this theme in Power BI Desktop
- 1
Download the theme
Use the Download theme JSON button above. The file is a few kilobytes and contains no images.
- 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
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 Obsidian Gold 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 Obsidian Gold colours.
Area chart · 576×208 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 area visual titled "Cash position, next 13 weeks". It sits in a 576×208 px slot on a designed report page. Match the report's brand: data colours #E3C46E, #F2EFE6, #B07D4A, #7F98B5, #5EA8A0, #C98C9A; background #151518; text #F2EFE6; font Segoe UI. Transparent visual background so the page design shows through; no visual border. The report uses the Obsidian Gold Power BI theme.
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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 Obsidian Gold 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 6 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 Obsidian Gold theme use?
It uses Cambria 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 Obsidian Gold
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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