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[Feature Request] Custom Colors (defined by RGB or HEX) on labels #620

Open hlwoodcock opened 3 years ago

hlwoodcock commented 3 years ago

I make heavy heavy use of labels (as I suspect many people do), but Google has really limited the brightness of the colors they allow us to set these too. Would it be possible to allow us to set true custom colors for individual labels by defining the RGB or HEX color codes?

leggett commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the feature request. The easiest way to do this would be if I let you map an existing label color to a different color (e.g., make this dark red darker or bolder).

It still isn't super easy (it would be my first fully custom setting). Just to make sure we're looking at the same thing, you feel this palette isn't meeting your needs:

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-- Bonus factoid: You have me to blame for the default colors. I picked them when I did the design for colored labels back in 2007. The ability to add a custom color was added later.

CarlosRebolledo commented 3 years ago

Que bueno será tener esto Michaell !!!! Quizás un tono por color más encendido o vivo sería una opción a revisar

Un abrazo

Carlos Rebolledo A. Abogado

El mié, 13 de oct. de 2021 a la(s) 22:07, Michael Leggett ( @.***) escribió:

Thanks for the feature request. The easiest way to do this would be if I let you map an existing label color to a different color (e.g., make this dark red darker or bolder).

It still isn't super easy (it would be my first fully custom setting). Just to make sure we're looking at the same thing, you feel this palette isn't meeting your needs:

[image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8763662/137233372-6e2ea9dc-db84-49fe-80cc-5e98007c15be.png

-- Bonus factoid: You have me to blame for the default colors. I picked them when I did the design for colored labels back in 2007. The ability to add a custom color was added later.

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hlwoodcock commented 3 years ago

Hi Michael,

Sorry for the delay in responding. You are absolutely correct in what I was suggesting! It would be nice to re-add that ability to set these colors to completely custom values.

Not sure why they even removed that functionality a few years ago (do you know?), but I have to thank you for your original work to even make changing label colors a thing at all!

Anyway, right now I have a workaround for this using Stylus and modifying the CSS of divs with specific titles (i.e., label names - "Dept"), but it is clunky and definitely far from perfect...

div[title="Dept"] { / style rules here / background-color: #06f !important; }

div[name="Dept"] { / style rules here / background-color: #06f !important; }

Not sure if this helps, but thanks so much for looking into adding this functionality!!!