Can i change the color of a status

[Dennis de Laat]

Hi there, 

I want to change the color of a status in my board. 

I use it as a sales pipeline, I want the color of 'lost' to be red instead of green (that is for the status won) can I adjust this?"

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Dennis - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You cannot change the color of a status like that if you are referring to the actual status category. 

[Dennis de Laat]

Its only blue grey and green right? 

[John Funk]

Correct.

[Nick]

I'd like this to be customizable as well.

For example, we have To Do, Blocked, In Progress, In Review, Testing, Done

And colors make sense for

• To Do, Blocked - Grey - To Do category
• Done - Green - Done category
• But for the In Progress category, In Progress, In Review and Testing are all the same. I like Blue for Testing, but I'd like to separate In Progress & In Review as yellow for example because those are really in progress when it comes to devs.

It would help visually when looking at boards, planned releases, etc. 

When they're all blue, it's hard to differentiate.

Are there any plans for expanding categories from just the basic 3 to customizable categories/colors?

[BHUSHAN PATIL]

Hi @Dennis de Laat ,

Yes, it is possible to change the color of a status in Jira. The status colours refer to status categories - To Do (Grey), In Progress (Blue) and Done (Green). If you are using Jira Cloud and wants to change the colour of a status between these categories.

1. Go to Jira Settings > Issues > Statuses (on the left-hand menu)
2. Press Edit next to the status you want to change the category for
3. Change the Category and press Save.

If you want more colours, you'll need to get an app for this - such as New Status Colors PRO for Jira Cloud.

Regards,
Bhushan

[Dennis de Laat]

But its only blue grey and green right? 

[BHUSHAN PATIL]

Yes, Natively only blue grey and green. but if you wants more colours, you can use plugin for this - such as New Status Colors PRO for Jira Cloud.

[Susan McCall]

I really need to be able to change the colors as well; red for "Blocked" status. In order to use the Epics maps feature, seeing red, green, blue, and gray will quickly show me what's blocked, done, in progress/in review, or todo.

Is there any way that this feature can be added?

[Chris Urban]

Two different things are getting mixed here: first, the color of the status within a workflow (To Do, Doing, Done states, represented by gray, blue and green, respectively), and second, the color of the card/ticket on a board.

The first requires a plugin to change. The second can be most easily handled by assigning card colors by query, in the Board settings. Go to Configure Board and then Card Colors, and select Query. A common example is by specific status, like

status in ( "Blocked", "Won't Do", "Rejected")

and assigning that Red. This will stripe/color the card on your board. I like to consolidate Ready for and In Progress states this way into one column (like, "Ready for QA" and "QA"), but coloring the Ready for cards as Green.