Deep Dive into Modern Visual Defaults and Customizing Theme Improvements (Preview)
Power BI Desktop visuals now start with a modern look. This preview introduces an updated base theme aligned with Fluent 2 , featuring subtitles, uniform padding, style presets, and a grey canvas background at 1920×1080 by default. Charts display smooth lines; slicers default to dropdown mode, and buttons have a refreshed appearance without manual formatting. Figure: Modern default report page with updated base theme (Fluent 2 styling). This update is designed to let you produce polished reports without having to use the formatting pane each time you include a visual. Let’s take a deeper look into what’s changed with this new default experience. Canvas and background updates The default canvas size increases to 1920×1080, giving you more space to work with. Only new pages use this setting—the initial page in a report retains the previous default size of 1280×720. The wallpaper and background are now shades of grey, providing better contrast when you add visuals to the page. This s...
