{"id":506276,"date":"2026-06-18T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506276\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:23:08","slug":"google-calendar-finally-has-more-color-options-for-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506276\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar finally has more color options for events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn\u2019t be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11 predefined colors has now been expanded to give users <a href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2026\/06\/custom-event-colors-in-google-calendar.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">access to up to 200 custom colors<\/a> for individual events across the native Calendar web and mobile apps, and the Calendar API.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">This started rolling out yesterday for users on Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.workspace.google.com\/admin\/releases\/choose-when-users-get-new-features?visit_id=639173822494683025-2042584171&amp;rd=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rapid release domains<\/a>, with an extended rollout for more users starting on June 29th, though the update may take a few weeks to reach everyone. It\u2019s available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts, and it will be enabled by default, according to Google\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">There are now 24 default colors to choose from, but Calendar users on the web (or via the API) can define additional colors using a full RGB color picker. Google says this update \u201cfulfills a long-standing feature request\u201d for more color options, as it\u2019s pretty easy to blast through the previous 11 color presets \u2014 especially if you use Calendar for both personal and work events. Now each event can have its own color instead of being shared with other unrelated events, making them easier to scan at a glance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn\u2019t be an issue going forward. The previous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1711,61,60,43,216,80],"class_list":["post-506276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-google","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}