# Where does this board colour coding come from?

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/where-does-this-board-colour-coding-come-from/1625>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [May 13, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/where-does-this-board-colour-coding-come-from/1625 "2021-05-13T16:40:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jean1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/jean1/32/1669_2.png) [@jean1](https://community.fibery.io/u/jean1)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/where-does-this-board-colour-coding-come-from/1625/1 "2021-05-13T16:40:58Z")

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The card in the _Negotiation_ column is clearly colored differently from the two other cards, but “No color codings applied here”. Where do those colors come from?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/e/e59a4ffe5b5780cbdc77ed34964b138c7f3c6d56.png)

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/where-does-this-board-colour-coding-come-from/1625/2 "2021-05-13T18:20:35Z")

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I’m guessing that the columns are workflow states, and Negotiation state is not a ‘final’ state, but the other two are. ‘Final’ states are greyed out automatically.

Related:

> [@Allow custom colours (or shading) for workflow states](https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-custom-colours-or-shading-for-workflow-states/1442):
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> In some cases I use the workflow states to indicate when an entity is progressing from ‘draft’, through ‘in review’ to ‘approved’ state. In these cases, it’s actually preferable that the ‘draft’ and ‘in review’ states are greyed out, and only the ‘approved’ state is shown in white (i.e. the opposite of the current functionality). Can we have the ability to customise the shading (or even the colours) of the workflow states. Also, although it is nice that there are little icons to represent the …

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**Author:** ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/where-does-this-board-colour-coding-come-from/1625/3 "2021-05-14T02:05:44Z")

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Chris, thanks for pressing along color-related requests!

Have you seen this one too?

> [@\[APROVED\] Color Coding of entire Card/Entity, not just "bar" of color](https://community.fibery.io/t/aproved-color-coding-of-entire-card-entity-not-just-bar-of-color/654):
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> Hi guys, I really like the color feature and I’ve been using it extensively with dates to show upcoming due dates, and massively overdue stuff (over a month for example, which is an option). I’m finding though that the small “bar” of color: does not give my team quite the effect of being able to see at a glance, in meetings, highlighted cards. Would you guys consider adding a preference her to color the entire card? So I could choose if I want just the “bar” that is the current op…

@oshyan lended support. It’s a more general request, but fully would like to see more capabilities around color in various places!

Cheers!