How can I change the status colour in my next gen or classic boards?

[Dakota Hanna]

Hi!

Is there any way to change the status colors in my backlog? It would be very helpful for visualizing the backlog especially. I'd like to be able to do this in both next gen and classic if possible.

e.g. To Do - Grey

In Progress - Amber

Ready for test- Light green

Ready for release - dark green

Blocked - Red

Done - Blue

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

The status colours are determined by the status category the status is in.

The colours of the categories are hard coded, and there are only three categories - To do, in progress, and done (although you can leave a status without a category, but that is the same colour as to do.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Dakota Hanna  -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Agreeing with what Nic said, and... There are several suggestions to add configurable colors to status values.  You may review and vote for any of those suggestions listed by this search:

https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project%20IN%20(JRACLOUD%2C%20JSWCLOUD)%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20summary%20~%20%22status%22%20AND%20summary%20~%20%22color%22%20ORDER%20BY%20Key

Best regards,

Bill

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Part of me does not want to allow people to change the colours, at least until they've had good training.

I've worked with organisations that understand colour-blindness, and hence know that the "red amber green" type things most people will instinctively reach for are really really bad for a lot of people.

Now, my cat is never going to use Jira (other than the random "laptop is made of warm, so it is a sleeping place"), but she can't tell red from green.  A lot of humans cannot either.  Then you need to consider the more unusual case of those who have blue-yellow problems.  (Those with complete lack of colour vision are actually better off - they can work off relative reflectivity)

Jira's current choice of grey/blue/green actually works ok.  If you let people move away from that, there's a very good chance that you'll end up making it harder for someone to use.

[Bill Sheboy]

Yup, I understand what you are saying.  And from a UX perspective, I wouldn't call the current color scheme accessibility compliant either.  Adding a pattern would help more.

[Dakota Hanna]

Thanks Nic and Bill!