Custom Colors for Sheets

Jbetschart

What is the status on more colors with projects. I use projects to track people and so my projects are used more like tasks and its hard with the only option for a color being blue. Seems like an easy addition but not sure if its being pushed into coming releases.

DrAlexH

This needs an update!

DrAlexH

Bumping for Aycunnin's astute recommendation.

Julie Becker

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/428953#Comment_428953

very frustrating right @A.J. ? This seems to be a trend in most of the forums since March with rediculous delays on responding to anyones requests, questions, issues/concerns, etc.. that when their staff post those redundant responses "Unfortunately, it's not possible now, but it's an excellent idea! Please submit this as a Product Feedback", i am no longer finding credibility or faith that anything we request in these forums will ever get answered by them.

Lately i have solely relied on other community members that are always here helping us with formulas or past experiences, and completely gave up waiting for the team to answer us back. There are times i have found my answers in other sites (reddit, youtube, linkedin, etc..), including recent responses to similar questions by the Smartsheets staff.

I dont know what their day to day activities are or why it takes so long to respond back, but just ignoring us for months on end, makes most of us less likely to trust or value anything they say 😕 moving forward. I am so sad 😔 to even say all that, but its getting worse. So hopefully someone who monitors these forums, will read responses like ours complaining about lack of responses from the company we are paying a hefty amount on a service we are not getting starts to address these issues soon, or their credibility as a program in general will start to lose its value and clients.😒

Craig Callison II

This is very much needed to help us distinguish between departments that exceed 8 units.

Crawhammer

PLEASE allow custom colors for cell fill based on Hex codes. We're running out of colors.

Dan L

It would be of great benefit if there were an option outside of the standard color scheme that is currently offered and we could use the color hex codes.

eehling

carly B

Any word on when we will get custom colors for conditional formatting in grid view? We color code many of our printed projects by subregion and I want to denote project numbers by that same color-coding for ease.

David deSousa

Custom Colors are not just about having more choices. Nearly all "standard" color palettes are far too saturated and bold to be easy on the eyes when used to fill cells in a spreadsheet. Even the lightest options in most applications (which is far better than what is available in SmartSheets) can increase eye fatigue when you are working with spreadsheets for several hours every day.
PLEASE GIVE US A DECENT COLOR PICKER!

Nastya Kline

I would love to have the ability to choose/create custom colors, similar to Google Sheets, rather than being stuck to the same color palette!

this:

vs. this:

Daniela_ela_ela

I need to color code every project (helps with my ADHD) but I run out of colors fast and I can't use the dark ones because the font is in black (don't want to turn it white). Can you please consider expanding the options for lighter colors?

Thank you!

dadkins

That's it. It's such a simple request but would provide so much value. Working with clients and creating files for them with the Windows 95 color palette only kills the look and connection of the company to the files. I'm sure it's a bit more complicated than it looks, but I can't wrap my head around how it still isn't a thing after seeing the amount of requests for it that goes back years. Or if not custom, at least a larger palette of colors and shades.