Customize report settings and themes

You can also customize the look and feel of your report by editing your report’s theme and font, color, layout and table style settings. This document covers how to configure your report theme and settings.

See also Customize element background and styles for more information on customizing element padding, backgrounds, or corner sizes. To customize element size and position instead, see Customize element size, position, and layering.

User requirements

You must be assigned an account type with Create, edit, and publish reports permission. See Account type and license overview.
You must enter Edit mode to configure the following.

Change report theme and settings

To access report settings:

Click the background of your report. From the side panel, select Report settings.

From Settings, you can:

Edit your report’s theme settings, color settings and font settings to match branding and compliance standards
Modify your layout style and layout settings to accommodate differently sized pages or screens
Change table style settings to highlight important information

Theme settings

Themes encompass a report’s color palette, fonts, and title and table text sizes, and are applied throughout the report once selected. Individual settings can be further modified.

You can choose a predefined theme for your report, or apply custom themes (report themes are shared across workbooks and reports). See Create and manage workbook themes. To select a theme:

In the Theme dropdown menu, select your desired theme.

Color settings

The Color settings control text, button, background, element, and chart colors in a report.

Setting	Description
Appearance	Select between a Light or Dark theme for a report.
Theme colors > Swap preset	Set a predefined color theme for report text, buttons, background, and charts.
Theme colors > Text	Sets the color of report text for your theme.
Theme colors > Highlight	Sets the color of buttons, link text, and selection indicators in your theme.
Theme colors > Surface	Sets the color for element backgrounds, borders, and icons in your theme.
Override colors > Canvas	Sets a custom color for the report canvas, different from the canvas color for the theme. Select Clear override to restore the default.
Categorical colors/Sequential colors/diverging colors	These are color schemes for the charts in your report. You can select a predefined palette or set custom colors to use for your charts.
Invert visualization tooltips	Inverts the theme’s text and background colors in tooltips.

Font settings

The Font settings control fonts throughout the report.

Setting	Description
Text font	Sets the font for non-data report text, like element titles, element descriptions, and table headers.
Data font	Sets the font for report data. The default is Roboto.
Title font	Sets the font size and color of element titles.

Select Revert to default to undo your changes and reset the settings to the default. To customize text styles more granularly, see Customize text typeface, size, and style in reports.

The Layout style settings control the layout of report pages and elements.

Setting	Description
Spacing	Sets the size of spacing between elements.
Corner	Sets the shape of element corners. Choose from a square, rounded, or pill-shaped corner. The default is round.
Data element style > Padding	Sets padding for a data element. Select or deselect the checkbox to add or remove padding around a data or control element.
Data element style > Background	Sets a custom background color for a data or control element. Set to Auto to match the element background for the theme.

Table style settings

The Table style settings control the format and display of tables, pivot tables, and input tables.

Setting	Description
Table style presets	Applies a preset to configure all table style options.
Cell spacing	Sets the padding around text within table cells.
Grid lines	Determines how cell borders are displayed.
Banding color	Choose a color to set as the background for alternating data rows.
Header	Formats table headers.
Subheader	Formats subheaders (applicable to pivot tables only).
Cell	Formats data cells.

Select Revert to default to undo your changes and reset the settings to the default.