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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Color theme generates different values than other Office applications

Is anyone else having issues with Power BI not generating a consistent corporate color palette with other Microsoft Office applications? Is this a bug or deliberate? Seems like we'd all want the two to be consistent so PBI reports could match other corporate themed materials... I was also hoping to use PPT regularly for quick mockups of graphs before building them out in PBI...

 

Tints start a step darker in PBI compared to Office

Shades are not as vibrant, very muted in PBI compared to Office

Side by side comparison of color inconsistency between PBI and Office

 

Need Help

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  • v-lili6-msft's avatar
    v-lili6-msft
    Community Support
    7 years ago

    HI, Anonymous 

    This is based on the theme file setting of the current report.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-report-themes

    Use different theme, the color palette has a different style.

     

    And you can set specific colors using a Hex code. Refer the link below to pick a desired color and use the hex value to set for the font colors using custom color option.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=rgb+to+hex&rlz=1C1RLNS_enUS840US840&oq=rgb+to+hex

     

    Best Regards,

    Lin

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Hi v-lili6-msft thanks for the response

       

      The steps you describe are what I've already done - this is a custom Report Theme I have created with hex codes in a JSON file. Only the first 8 hex codes entered as data colors are accepted by the palette, the ones shown in the boxes across the first row. My question is about how Power BI generates the other 5 palette values (3 tints, 2 shades) for each data color. Even though the Power BI documentation says you can the list of data colors "can have as many or as few colors as you want", only the first 8 show up in the palette that is shown to users. I have no found a way to manually set the available tints/shades below each color. Is that possible?