POWER BI STYLING CHEAT-SHEET (1-PAGE, PRO DESIGN GUIDE)
Make your dashboards look clean, modern & professional in minutes.
If your dashboards look messy, inconsistent, or “too default”…
this 1-page Power BI Styling Cheat-Sheet will instantly upgrade your design quality.
It captures the core rules used by professional BI designers, including:
🎨 Perfect color palette structure
🔠 Typography rules for clarity
📐 Layout & spacing rules
📊 Chart cleanup fundamentals
✨ Visual enhancement tricks
🎯 Finishing checklist to polish any dashboard
This cheat-sheet is designed to be printable, skimmable, and instantly usable—stick it to your workspace or keep it open while designing reports.
📘 What’s Inside (You Get in This Cheat-Sheet):
✔ 1. The 2–3 Color Palette System
How to choose the right primary, accent, and neutral colors
- 3 ready-to-use professional palettes
✔ 2. Typography Rules
Font combinations, sizes, spacing & readability guidelines
The exact settings used by BI professionals
✔ 3. The 4-Block Layout Formula
A proven layout structure:
- KPIs
- Trends
- Categories
- Tables
✔ 4. Quick Chart Cleanup Checklist
Fix borders, titles, labels, legends, gridlines & formatting
For instantly clean charts
✔ 5. Visual Enhancements
Rounded corners, shadows, alignment, margins, and icon usage
Everything that makes a dashboard look premium
✔ 6. Pro Designer Tips
Micro-rules that drastically improve dashboard usability
(without adding complexity)
🎯 Who This Cheat-Sheet Is For
- Power BI beginners who want to build professional dashboards
- Analysts who want consistent, clean visuals
- Students preparing dashboards for projects
- BI developers who need a quick reference guide
- Anyone who wants faster, cleaner Power BI design
🚀 What You’ll Achieve With This Cheat-Sheet
- Cleaner dashboards
- More readable visuals
- Better stakeholder attention
- Faster design process
- Consistent styling across all pages
- Professional look with minimal effort
💡 Bonus: Template Recommendation
If you want ready-made templates with these rules already applied, check out:
👉 5 Modern Power BI Templates (includes layouts, colors, and guide)
📥 Includes
- 1-page PDF (high-resolution)
- Modern, clean, printable format