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Still not entirely 'it', but it's getting there. I'll extensivelyВ dive into that in another post, but here's a sneak peek of the difference typography can make for tables once you remove excessive borders and use typographic accents (I also did some formatting to the numbers):

On top ofВ that, I tend to move away from borders as a means of laying out my report, and use larger fonts to designate section headers and titles - just like on this blog :).В Below are two examples - one in SSRS default, one in my 'altered' style, having removed borders and used newer typography (Calibri in this example, on the bottom of this post is an example using Segoe UI Light which I like more).ДЄs for tables, the difference is even bigger.

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This gives more room to display information, while maintaining readability and IMHO even improving design (more whitespace)Did you know there's a Dutch printing press company use this technique of reducing font size and increasing visual space inВ their extremely portable ' Dwarsligger' books?

Segoe UI Light (Excellent for printing IMHO)ДЇor table structures I tend to pick a somewhat smaller font, but leave the row size the same.

What about changing that? Some suggestions for other fonts: But all this text is showed in Arial, 10pt. Much information inside your report is captured inside text.

It gives me the possibility to use placeholdersВ (not available inside a chart title)Дў: Arial (and typography in general) is easy-to-read, but somewhat outdated.

Title can be aligned as left as I want it (even before the left border of the chart).

The advantages flowing from the use of this separate TextBox are way better than 'just' the rendering: My primary fix is simply to remove the chart title, put it in a separate text box and align it left. This is all FYI - you can't do very much about it, but it canВ help you explain why your report looks different in the browser. The differences are mostlyВ subtle, but canВ sometimes create nasty differences when a text that fitted perfectly in your preview, suddenly becomes too large once deployed to Report Manager or Sharepoint.

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Below isВ a text rendered in a SSRS report three times: a Textbox rendered in the webbrowser, a Textbox rendered in Windows Forms (SSDTВ preview) and text rendered inside an SSRS chart.

AndВ the fact that I don't like the title styling, isn't that my problem? Why need IВ bother you with it? Well, let me elaborate a bit why I don't like the title styling: SSRS uses in its charts a different font rendering engine (not the oneВ Windows uses). Pick what you like and leave the rest: 1: I don't like the title stylingДЄdmittedly, this first point isn't a big one. So, per objection I've stated above, I'll provide my 'fix', so you can see the impact of the changes for yourself. Compare this with, say, Power BI, and you'll see someВ major differences: Power BI: No axis titles, graph title left aligned, soft grey colors for things that aren't core content

VerticalВ axis is quite obsolete Some see the bottom axis as obsolete too, but IMHO it gives the columns a common starting point, which I like)ДЄll these things aren't necessarily badВ things, but they all do have an impact on the experience of a report.

Color theme is quite 'hard' -В texts are all printed in black.

Extensive use of axis titles, aligned in the center.

Arial (and typography in general) is easy-to-read, but somewhat outdated.

Here's what I mean:ДЄlthough everything is readable and understandable, here are a few objections I have: This is something that's - among other things - signified by the extensive use of Arial fonts, layout via borders, and a certain then-popular color style. One of the key things I pointed at toВ the opening post (SSRS - it doesn't have to be ugly) create less-ugly SSRS reports is by getting rid of the Office 2003-style.

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This is the first post in a new series on non-ugly SSRS reports.

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