# Color Coding in Tables - allow coloring cell background

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/color-coding-in-tables-allow-coloring-cell-background/1551>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** table-view\
**Created:** [April 11, 2021, 8:13am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/color-coding-in-tables-allow-coloring-cell-background/1551 "2021-04-11T08:13:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/color-coding-in-tables-allow-coloring-cell-background/1551/14 "2022-10-08T06:39:21Z")

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I think this is a great example Chris of why we could use more votes! @Matt_Blais described right here:

> [@Chr1sG](#):
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> Defining the foreground color of cell text could also be quite useful (as well as bold/italic) - e.g., rendering imminent dates in red for a Due Date column

And I gave you guys an image of how that’s done in a popular app, Asana. I in fact came back here t revise this because I was testing in Asana and found that feature extremely useful, searched for it here in the community, and discovered that Matt had requested exactly that!

@Oshyan what exactly do you mean by lists? Collections in Entities (the original term for the area in entities where you see one-to-many relations that just got the update and has more stuff you can see in it now…

> [@CHANGELOG: September 8, 2022 / Relation Lists, reorder Databases in Space settings](https://community.fibery.io/t/changelog-september-8-2022-relation-lists-reorder-databases-in-space-settings/3262):
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> Relation Lists This feature has been experimental for a while ([CHANGELOG: August 18, 2022 / Experimental: Relation Views and Buttons on Entity View, Promo codes - #2](https://community.fibery.io/t/changelog-august-18-2022-experimental-relation-views-and-buttons-on-entity-view-promo-codes/3184/2)), and now it’s enabled for everyone by default. When you open an Entity, to-many relations are now visualized as proper Views with levels, units, filters, sorting, and color-coding. Our goal is to make Entity View a better dashboard for DBs like Project or Epic. So far it’s only a single List View with other kinds of Vi…

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