Light Power BI theme

Treasury Ink Power BI theme

Editorial light Power BI theme for treasury and finance packs: deep teal and brass on warm paper, Georgia headings, restrained oxblood for negatives.

By · Founder & Reliability Engineer · Updated

Free for commercial use
Treasury Ink theme applied to the Price-Volume-Mix Analysis template

Shown on the Price-Volume-Mix Analysis template.

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

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About the palette

Treasury Ink borrows the look of a printed annual report: warm paper #F5F4F0, Georgia headings, and a deep teal (#0F5257) that carries the main series. Brass #B0823A and a lighter teal #2F7F86 follow, so price, volume and mix bars in a bridge chart stay apart without bright colour.

It suits cash-flow, receivables and price-volume-mix pages that end up in a PDF board pack. Oxblood #8C3B3B is in the data list for a cost series; the bad status colour #A83232 is redder, so unfavourable variance is still recognisable next to it. Text sits at 17.2:1 on the white cards.

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

  • Bar, column and line charts with four or five series (5 hue families).
  • Thin line charts and sparklines on white cards: every chart colour reaches 3.4:1 or more.
  • Variance charts, waterfalls and KPI deltas: good #2E7346 and bad #A83232 are 141° apart in hue.

Colour-vision simulation

  • Protanopia: series 1 and 4 (#0F5257, #8C3B3B)
  • Give those series data labels or direct labels instead of relying on the legend.
Chart colours
8, in 5 hue families
Lightness range
20–47 %
Text contrast
15.6:1
Muted text
6.2:1
Weakest chart colour
3.4:1 on cards
Near-grey series
1

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#F5F4F0—base
Card / surface#FFFFFF—base
Text#1C1B1817.22:1AA text
Muted text#5C5A526.91:1AA text
Accent#0F52578.88:1≥ 3:1
Good#2E73465.74:1≥ 3:1
Neutral#9A6A144.72:1≥ 3:1
Bad#A832326.63:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 1#0F52578.88:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 2#B0823A3.44:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 3#2F7F864.67:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 4#8C3B3B7.49:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 5#A4652A4.69:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 6#6B5B955.91:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 7#3D5A807.06:1≥ 3:1
Data colour 8#5B75535.10:1≥ 3:1

Theme JSON excerpt

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

treasury-ink-theme.json
{
  "name": "Treasury Ink",
  "dataColors": [
    "#0F5257",
    "#B0823A",
    "#2F7F86",
    "#8C3B3B",
    "#A4652A",
    "#6B5B95",
    "#3D5A80",
    "#5B7553"
  ],
  "background": "#F5F4F0",
  "foreground": "#1C1B18",
  "tableAccent": "#0F5257",
  "good": "#2E7346",
  "neutral": "#9A6A14",
  "bad": "#A83232"
}

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 Treasury Ink 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 Treasury Ink colours.

Custom visual · 704×200 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.

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

A Power BI custom visual titled "Revenue bridge". Purpose: Waterfall from prior-year revenue through price, volume and mix effects to current revenue. It sits in a 704×200 px slot on a designed report page. Match the report's brand: data colours #0F5257, #B0823A, #2F7F86, #8C3B3B, #A4652A, #6B5B95; background #FFFFFF; text #1C1B18; font Segoe UI. Transparent visual background so the page design shows through; no visual border. The report uses the Treasury Ink Power BI theme.

Templates in this theme

Backgrounds to pair with Treasury Ink

Light page backgrounds that sit well under this palette. Each background page has its own theme download, or keep Treasury Ink 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 Treasury Ink 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 1 pair 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 Treasury Ink theme use?

It uses Georgia 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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