Add colors to cards on your board

You can add colors to cards on your board to help your team identify work items easily. You can assign colors to cards based on request types, work types, priorities, assignees, or Jira Query Language (JQL) queries.

You must be a Jira admin, project admin or board admin to add colors to cards.

Add card colors

Queues

1. Go to the queue with the board to which you’d like to add card colors.

2. Select More actions (), then Edit queue.

3. Under the Board heading, select Card colors.

4. From the Select method dropdown list, select your desired method.

   1. If you select Queries, select Add card color.

   2. Select a color and enter a JQL query.

   3. Select Add color.

Views

1. Select Configure views () at the top right of the page.

2. Select Card colors, then follow the instructions in step 4 above.

Examples using JQL

All work items that are due in the next 24 hours:

All work items due by the end of month:

Change card colors

Once you've chosen a method, you can change the colors for each type of card.

1. Select the color you want to change.

2. Choose a new color.