Summary
This chapter covers customizing and styling user interface components by configuring their properties (size, borders, shadows, typography) and arranging their layout through alignment and spacing controls.

General domain of usage
Business intelligence dashboard design

In this chapter we continue to polish the Summit Gear dashboard, primarily working through the KPIs page, the main page of our dashboard.

#### Hex codes:
- Steel Blue: `#4A7C96`
- Charcoal: `#2D3436`
- White: `#FFFFFF`
- Light Grey (Border): `#E6E6E6`
- Blue Grey (Category Label): `#6B7B8D`
- Light Grey (Axis Label): `#605E5C`

You want a 12px steel blue stripe on the left edge of each `KPI` card. What is the correct way to achieve this in Power BI?

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KPIs Page

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