Use Epic Color for Epics in Jira Cloud
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Summary
Jira offers a custom text field named Epic Color which can be used to visually distinguish Epics from one another in board, backlog, and issue search experiences.
Solution
Add the Epic Color field to your project's screen(s)
Similar to any other field, Epic Color can be added to a project's field scheme in Jira settings > issues > custom fields.
Epic Color includes 14 pre-set colors. To change your Epic's color with this field, click the colored square next to the issue title and choose from the available options.
The Epics panel in a scrum or Kanban board of a company-managed project also allows you to select a color in the same way.
Search for Epics based on their Epic Color
The choices for Epic Color do have descriptive names associated with them, for example, "dark gray" or "teal." However, Jira does not allow searching for Epics based on this naming convention. Instead, you must search based on the text code associated with each Epic Color option. The text code begins with ghx-label- and is followed by an integer ranging from 1 to 14.
For instance, assume you have selected "teal" as my Epic Color. If you want to search for this Epic and other Epics using the same color, your JQL search would look like this:
"Epic Color" = ghx-label-11
List of available Epic Colors and searchable codes
Color Name (not searchable) | HEX code | Code |
|---|---|---|
dark gray | #243859 | ghx-label-1 |
dark yellow | #FA9920 | ghx-label-2 |
yellow | #FAC304 | ghx-label-3 |
dark blue | #2A53CC | ghx-label-4 |
dark teal | #2AA3BF | ghx-label-5 |
green | #58D8A4 | ghx-label-6 |
purple | #8677D9 | ghx-label-7 |
dark purple | #5244AA | ghx-label-8 |
orange | #FA7353 | ghx-label-9 |
blue | #3884FF | ghx-label-10 |
teal | #34C7E6 | ghx-label-11 |
gray | #6B778C | ghx-label-12 |
dark green | #128759 | ghx-label-13 |
dark orange | #DD350D | ghx-label-14 |
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