Remove the "Contrast Adjusted" Setting for Status Colors | Voters

Remove the "Contrast Adjusted" Setting for Status Colors

Kirsten Fuller

A new feature automatically changes custom status colors for "better" contrast and there's no way to turn it off. I want to keep the "custom" part of the "custom colors" intact

June 1, 2026

Chloe Tudor

Is there any update on this? It is driving me insane!!! All our lists with custom colours are completely messed up

Joe Rodichok

This has been atrocious change. What was once a simple let me color code my things and make it easy for my work flow is now basically random colors. This is MY workflow not yours. I decide my flow and the colors. I’m not sure why y'all thought this was a good idea without at least giving people an option.

Kara Myers

I'm really upset about the forcing of contrast adjusted colors for multiple reasons. The two biggest being:

You've now forced darker colors with darker text. I intentionally had lighter colors chosen with the darker text for the ability to see them. You've forced darker "contrast adjusted" colors to where it's made it near impossible for me to read them. You've now gone AGAINST accessibility guidelines. It's so disheartening. I was very frustrated to hear the constant argument that you were "helping" because in fact, you weren't. If you actually run accessibility contrast checkers on ClickUp, all of my custom colors passed EASILY and were wayyyyy into the necessary contrast ratio. The contrast adjusted forced by ClickUp actually caused them not to pass. Not only that, but there are so many places (not colors chosen by us for a reason) that are NOT passing that you could've addressed and not messed with our systems.
In project management, people choose specific colors for a reason. They match our other systems, they work cohesively with other things. They represent specific items, brands, projects, etc. We choose them FOR A REASON in project management. Going in and forcing a change to people's systems on colors (that aren't just an aesthetic thing) was so tone deaf to what the system is actually used for.

For those of us who have had the contrast adjustment off, and this still being forced, to me represented a bigger feeling of ClickUp not caring what the user needs/wants.

You've completely force changed something that entire teams have built systems and function on.

Please give us our colors back that we chose purposefully and for a reason.

Athenee

I've said it before and will say it again... We're not in kindergarten. We can pick our own colors, thank you very much!

What's going on with ClickUp and their 'updates'? Stop messing with things that are working! And focus on broken things instead. Please and thank you.

João Jesus

What is normal in most of other tools, is that "accessibility" is a feature/option that can be turned on or off, based on the real user's needs.
On ClickUp, currently this is mandatory.
Don't you think that accessibility should be something that is up to the user to decide if he/she wants to activate it or not?
What is the point of having a complete color palette to choose from if, at the end, we are only able to choose from a part of all that colors????
I was used to using a logic for my Status based on traffic lights: red > yellow > green. Now that's impossible, and the colors available to me are sad and make no sense at all.
Please remove this useless feature immediately and give us back our colors!
Thanks!

Kala Wangsness

Making sure to upvote this and leave a comment. Custom colors are so important and how I can look at my calendar, I know what everything is based on the custom color I have assigned and took the time to decide on. When things that this are done, it would be nice to have a toggle on or off option so major changes can be determined by the user, not forced on us. One of these big ones in the past was being forced to have the task location included on the Google calendar sync and the only way off removing it and seeing what truly matters on the Google calendar was to manually change each event on Google calendar or pay for another service to do it for you.

Rezo Lomidze

ClickUp are you kidding us!? Give us back our colors, please!

Matthew Balogh

I agree with everyone else here and just wanted to increase the number of people opposing this dumb change. My yellow, orange and light green statuses look like puke now lol. Give us an option to turn this dumb feature off please. I don't see why would anyone force users to have this enabled with no option to turn it off
I want the CUSTOM element in my CUSTOM colors that I deliberately chose for my statuses, not the "custom colors that we arbitrarily adjusted which you didn't ask for"
Seriously, who's making these stupid decisions every time?

Natalie Williams

Matthew Balogh all of these pointless updates yet multiple comments from the ClickUp team about how swamped they are. Well, maybe start properly prioritizing what gets worked on and quit buggering up features that work as they are. 
Whoever decided to "contrast adjust" CUSTOM colors really shouldn't be making priority decisions. My calendar is horrible to view now as tasks with the same status that should
 have the same color (I use templates for all statuses) have DIFFERENT colors...someone make it make sense.
And the addition of that current/upcoming scheduled activity in the useless top menu is another pointless decision. I don't need or want a timer (?) that shows irrelevant info as you can't restrict the lists it's pulling info from. That entire top menu should be removed to improve the functional space.

Jayde Pope

Agree with all the comments here. The accessibility feature is important, but it should be an option to implement for those with accessibility issues, not implemented for everyone. It's thrown off me and my team as we use colours as a way to differentiate, and have spent unnecessary time looking for statuses we thought had disappeared randomly, but they had in fact just changed colour. And yes, the yellow sucks.

Rachel Herring

I genuinely cannot understand the thinking here. You took a custom color (the whole point being that we chose it deliberately) and silently overrode it for "contrast," with no toggle to opt out. For teams who use status colors as a functional system, not decoration, this breaks a visual language we built on purpose. Yellow is now mud.
What makes it worse: this wasn't in any release note. I found out because my workspace changed under me, then confirmed it by finding other customers reporting the same thing in this very portal. That's not how you ship a change that alters existing customer configurations.
This is a pattern, not a one-off. Functional changes keep landing with no documentation, and every week something we relied on quietly degrades. At minimum: give us a toggle to keep our exact custom colors, and put functional/visual changes in the release notes so we aren't reverse-engineering what you did to our own workspace.

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