I’m seeing inconsistent behavior with the Asana PUT and GET Project APIs when updating the color field. When I send the following request: PUT https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/projects/<project guid> HTTP/1.1 Host: app.asana.com User-Agent: SomeAgent/1.0 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate accept: applica…

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Hi @Marin_Takanov , thanks for flagging this and for the clear repro steps. You’re running into a known discrepancy: after the new color palette was introduced in the Asana web UI, the Projects API color field behaves inconsistently between read (GET) and write (POST/PUT). Unfortunately, due to som…

Project API returns incorrect color values on PUT and GET

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Richard_Sather December 16, 2025, 7:44pm 3

Hi @Marin_Takanov you may want to check this out:

Perhaps @Mikhail_Melikhov or @John_Vu can assist you?

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Project API returns incorrect color values on PUT and GET

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