Dundas BI Styles & Themes - Controls

#1

Imagine a scenario where you have several related dashboards and you'd like all their contents to have a consistent appearance from one dashboard to the next.


What would you do?


We'd recommend using Styles and Themes, as these give you an easy way to save the appearance settings for components and data visualizations, and then apply the saved settings to other content!


For more information on Styles and Themes, click here.


Now, for the purpose of this Discussion Topic, we'd like to showcase what different controls look like under the different built-in themes in Dundas BI. Take a look at the images below and let us know what you think.


We're hoping these images will inspire you to create and/or share your own themes with everyone in the community!


BRIGHT

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CANDY

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CIAO

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CLASSIC

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EARTH

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DUNDAS

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PURPLE

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DESIGNER

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EARL GREY

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If you have any Styles and Themes of your own that you'd like to share with us - please do! We'd love to see them. Or if this inspires you to create your own, even better!

#2

Earl Grey is good if the dashboard is going to be printed in non color. but honestly who doesnt has color printers now a days (do they even make those any more?)

#3

Is there a multi-color theme that is works for colorblind users?

#4

At the moment, we don't yet have a theme designed for color blind users, however, in the interim, you can certainly reference this blog:


Visualizing for the Color Blind


In addition to the recommendations found in the piece, I'd also recommend avoiding the use of a Flat UI palette, or if in doubt, to use a Color Blindness Simulator such as this one.

#5

I particularly like referencing this blog as well:


Finding the Right Color Palettes for Data Visualizations


For my dashboarding color needs, because


a) it's quite detailed, but also

b) there are a wealth of resources available at the bottom


Hopefully that helps!

#6

Knowing the US Goverment regulations on we sites, they always want you to make the site readable by all people.


Having a pre built color blind theme that passes the US Goverment regs might help set you apart from the rest.


#7

I would love to see a dark mode - I'm having to do this myself for our primary tenant but it is taking a lot of time. If Dundas had a complete light mode and dark mode for the entire application out of the box it would save a lot of tweaking time.

#8

What is the main color/hue/tint of the this Dark mode?

#9

Something as simple as the MS Office 'Dark Grey' theme would be fine. For certain projection environments a dark background with light elements works better than a white background with dark elements - which can appear washed out when the white bleeds into the elements.