# Background color of the cards on Dashboard

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/background-color-of-the-cards-on-dashboard/668540>\
**Category:** Product Ideas\
**Created:** [18 January 2024 10:51 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/background-color-of-the-cards-on-dashboard/668540 "2024-01-18T10:51:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrea\_Mayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/andrea_mayer/32/39226_2.png) [@Andrea\_Mayer](https://forum.asana.com/u/Andrea_Mayer)\
**Post date:** [18 January 2024 11:11 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/background-color-of-the-cards-on-dashboard/668540/2 "2024-01-18T11:11:58Z")

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Welcome to the Asana Community Forum @Ильнур!

You could add a custom field with drop-down and each of the options has a different colour. This way you can customize them a bit and you can see the colours or even filter to only see specific ones.

Additionally here is an existing feedback request thread around colours:

> [@Colors for columns and ability to bold or change color of text in titles of column and tasks](https://forum.asana.com/t/colors-for-columns-and-ability-to-bold-or-change-color-of-text-in-titles-of-column-and-tasks/2009):
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> I would like to be able to change the background color of my columns so that I can visually delineate the columns. I would also like to be able to change the color of my text and bold it as well, in the headings.

And since you mention dashboards, for charts this is how you can colour-code them:

> [@How to make pie charts in reporting dashboard of multi-color?](https://forum.asana.com/t/how-to-make-pie-charts-in-reporting-dashboard-of-multi-color/306901/3):
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> Hi @Andrea_Mayer , I think @Ravi_J might be looking for creating charts with multiple colours that refer to the colours from a set of custom field options. @Ravi_J , if you set the colour of your chart to the first one (light grey) and set the ‘Group’ of a donut (or the X-axis of your columns) to [a custom field which has options where each value has its own unique colour](https://asana.com/guide/help/premium/custom-fields#gl-edit), you should get the result you are looking for. [image] [image] Note, you need to be on the Premium, Business or Enterpris…

Does that help?

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