New Label Colors?

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I ran the Get Board REST API today and noticed that the list of names of colors has expanded. I was expecting:

"labelNames": {
        "green": "",
        "yellow": "",
        "orange": "",
        "red": "",
        "purple": "",
        "blue": "",
        "sky": "",
        "lime": "",
        "pink": "",
        "black": ""
    },

but got

"labelNames": {
        "green": "",
        "yellow": "",
        "orange": "",
        "red": "",
        "purple": "",
        "blue": "",
        "sky": "",
        "lime": "",
        "pink": "",
        "black": "",
        "green_dark": "",
        "yellow_dark": "",
        "orange_dark": "",
        "red_dark": "",
        "purple_dark": "",
        "blue_dark": "",
        "sky_dark": "",
        "lime_dark": "",
        "pink_dark": "",
        "black_dark": "",
        "green_light": "",
        "yellow_light": "",
        "orange_light": "",
        "red_light": "",
        "purple_light": "",
        "blue_light": "",
        "sky_light": "",
        "lime_light": "",
        "pink_light": "",
        "black_light": ""
    },

So of course, I went to my Board and tried to use some of these “new” label colors, but could not find them. But the craziness continued when I looked at the Board’s label configuration using another one of our users. The labels/colors were shown differently. (see screenshots)

As any developer would, I looked at the HTML code (and CSS styles) for “select a label” popup comparing the two users and the code is completely different - not just for the popup but the whole page.

So, my questions

  1. Am I crazy - anyone else notice this? Or am I just late to the party and everyone has noticed this?

  2. Are these UI differences some form of A/B or Beta testing or is there a setting somewhere. The labels appear to be the only thing really different visibly but as mentioned the page’s code is completely different.

  3. When we be using these additional colors? (In other words, do I need to update my code to be aware of these colors?)

@VickiScheck
Is this what you were experiencing? (thread)

Thanks for the help!

ROB

screenshots

user-1-select-label
user-2-select-label

user-1-card-detail
user-2-card-detail

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No not crazy. Some kind of partial release/experiment. I have the same problem. I personally don’t like the new look as I find the labels are harder to see from a glance.

3

Thanks for the reassurance :slight_smile:
I just got the new look on another user.

Still curious as to all of the new color names exposed in the API when including labelNames on a GET Board request. Maybe this is top secret and we will have to get read in before using?

Cheers

4

The new label colors in Trello were officially announced yesterday, the 13th

Trello blog - Make work vibrant: Announcing 20 new label colours.

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Trello Color Helpers are not working with this yet.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/trello/power-ups/utils-and-helpers/