- Google Calendar offers more color options to personalize events
- Up to 200 colors now available to users
- It is rolling out now and all users are ready to receive the update.
If you’ve ever thought your Google Calendar view could use an extra pop of color, then you’re in luck.
The company has revealed a major expansion of the customization options available for its calendar app, allowing users to paint a rainbow of colors to help define their day and mark important events.
In fact, Google Calendar will now offer up to 200 custom colors for individual events, a big increase from the 11 currently offered.
More customization for Google Calendar
In a Google Workspace updates blog post announcing the news, the company noted that it was fulfilling “a long-standing feature request from both business and personal users for more customizable options.”
Beyond its current “limitation” of 11 predefined colors for events, the company says the move will provide much deeper customization for all users.
Users will be able to select from 24 preset colors as part of the expanded color palette, with a full RGB color picker providing access to up to 200 custom colors for individual events via the native web and mobile apps, as well as the Calendar API.
The feature is rolling out now to all Google Workspace customers, as well as Workspace Individual subscribers and users with personal Google accounts, and will take a few weeks to fully roll out.
It will be activated by default and the user will be able to customize it, without the need for administrative controls.
The news is the latest update to Google Calendar, as the company seeks to make it more useful for users.
This includes a new Gemini feature that can offer “suggested times” based on participant availability, offering a series of suggestions based on everyone’s work hours and potential conflicts, and then you can review and choose the best time for everyone.
Google’s calendar app will now also allow users to block out parts of their day to focus on a specific task, similar to how it displays meeting spaces: users can add details of the task that needs to be done and customize visibility and do not disturb settings to ensure they get their work done.
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