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The IBCS suggest that colors and fills should not be used for decorative purposes in the design of reports, statistics, and presentation materials. Instead, the use of colors and fills should only support the communication process, i.e. clarify the respective content. (R) IBCS.

Since the standard Power BI Theme is not fitting very well to the IBCS Standard, I quickly created a JSON File with the most important colors, which could look like this (expand):


{ "name":"IBCS",
"dataColors":["#808080", "#BFBFBF", "#8CB400", "#FF0000", "#AA8C00", "#0064FF", "#66A4FF", "#FF008C"]}

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Requirement & detailed feature explanation: Power BI March 2017 Update

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Black is used for the display of actual data.
Medium gray is used for the display of previous year data.
White is used for the display of plan and budget data (outlined)
Red is used for variances with negative impact and for negative highlighting.
Green is used for variances with positive impact and for positive highlighting.
Blue could be used for highlighting actual data
Light Blue could be used for highlighting previous year data
Purple could be used for highlighting plan and budget data
Olive could be used for highlighting forecast data

Download the Power BI IBCS(R) Color Theme without registration: IBCS(R) Color Theme Download or create your own here.

Update 13.03.2017: Lars Schreiber hat sich dem Thema hier noch intensiver gewidmet.

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