# Where does this board colour coding come from?

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/where-does-this-board-colour-coding-come-from/1625>\
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**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:** ![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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