Status & Folder Colors in 3.0
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Kelly Neyland
Status colors are too light in 3.0 and don't stand out
We have many lengthy schedule lists and we depend on being able to quickly glance at a schedule and see the status colors where we can quickly identify red for blocked/delayed tasks and yellow for in progress, for example.
The new translucent status colors do not stand out enough. I assume the goal was to make them stand apart from the custom fields. Perhaps you can add a dark bold border around the new status colors. Something to make them stand out a bit more.
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Caroline Ginty
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Customise status colours
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Tash Mathers - Mon, Tue, Wed (half day), Thur
It would be great to be able to customise status colours - I do not like the new change in colours as there is insufficient contrast between some of the colours.
Alix Kieser
I hate the color scheme of ClickUp 3.0. We need the vibrant colors of 2.0 back. Everything is too muted.
Tamaryn
I'm going to add to this -- in 3.0 there is a limited number of colors for List and Folder Colors. We should have the option to pick from unlimited Hex colors as we do in Statuses. In fact, we should be able to use Hex choices ANY TIME we have the option to choose colors.
1) It creates additional Color Coding, which is extremely important for creating systems and better organization (and something our team relied on). Things shouldn't be limited to the same shades of green or pink.
2) Using a limited number of colors creates confusion when viewing Gantt charts
3) Allowing color customization creates a better experience for visually impaired people (or anyone) who would like brighter, more vivid colors when using DARK Mode and/or to create more contrast.
4) Can better set priorities (For example, pure black can be used for folders that are dedicated to information, while GRAY can be used to identify folders related to more administrative or repetitive tasks.
**** We're really disappointed with this shift to limited colors. One of the biggest reasons we chose ClickUp was the ability to customize it to our specific needs -- especially color.
Caroline Ginty
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Status colors changed - Bring back the original ones!
Caitlin Alber
Until a recent update...
You had the ability to select more color options when creating statuses (see screenshots). When this was changed, if one of the selected colors wasn't in the new pallet then it defaulted to a color close by (making some of our statuses the same color now).
You can fix this using custom colors now (the eye dropper) but it was a bit of a hassle to go back and edit my task status templates and spaces, lists, etc. that use them to fix the duplicate color issue.
Also - the original colors were more appealing visually. Our bright yellow went to a dingy, grungy yellow. (I replaced it with a custom yellow in my screenshot) and even the "completed" green is darker when it previously was much brighter. This one can't be fixed with a custom color because you can't change that status color.
Caroline Ginty
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Custom Space and List Colours
With the recent update (September 2023) completely changing Status, Space, and List colours, colour co-ordination across the app has been broken.
For Workspaces that matched Space and List colours to Status colours, it's no longer possible to co-ordinate these colours unless you change all your Status colours to be the new default ones, which would mean changing systems of work that people have been used to for years.
We can change our Statuses to whatever colour we want, to get them back to the colours they were before the update, but Space and List colours cannot be customised.
Could we please get the option to customise Space and List colours so we can match them with our Status colours?
(This would also give another benefit of allowing us to coordinate our colours with other apps we use. For example, I use a certain shade of Green across all apps I use for a certain area of work, as it makes identifying them very quick.)
Caroline Ginty
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Green color
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Ruth
Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaase change the green of the "done"-status into the old color (brighter green) as it was before!!!!!!!! I tried to do this by myself, but I could'nt figure out how I can change it. So I guess its a general setting. If not, please help me to adjust the status-green!
Thank you and kind regards
Ruth
Ginger Marcus
We also ran into limitation on space colors because the “different” colors are far too similar especially on mobile so we had to scrap the whole idea and rethink. Custom color would help since we could tweak and not just be limited to the few in the picker
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Maria F Arango
For me is too dark, sad and ugly. I get confused with these dark colors. Please let us change it. Why is not possible to change this color while you can change other customized statuses?
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Maria F Arango
For me is too dark and sad. I get confused with these dark colors. Please let us change it. Why is not possible to change this color while you can change other customized statuses?
Rob Leslie
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