Change the colour of Teams, the default purple is deterring everyone from even trying it, and refusing to move from Slack
Basically anything but purple or variant of it
Personally i like green, but variant of blue will also do
Francois Prinsloo
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73 comments
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Anonymous
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Im not so bothered by the purple color but what I don't like is that in high contrast mode, which is my preference, presence indicators for contacts ARE NOT color coded. this makes it impossible at a quick glance to tell someone's status, At a minimum, please make these color coded like everywhere else.
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Boirs
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Just out of curiosity where are you working (also what department) that has people deterred from teams by the color?
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Betty
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Please! This lavender is sickly and I desperately want some choices in between the bright white and dark black backgrounds.
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Anonymous
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The first thing I wanted to change after installing Teams is its color and I cannot do it (－‸ლ) .
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Anonymous
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Please allow custom colors
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Lisa McFarland
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Having the ability to change the individual backgrounds of the Teams chats would be so helpful as an extra visual aid to know which person, group or team you're talking to.
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Ryan Reed
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@David, I love the colors of the other O365 apps and it does help to have that distinction, but now that we use teams all day, every day, it's important to have users enjoy what they are looking at. For apps that get used this often, it would be great to see the ability to customize the colors. Telling users to grow up and deal with it is not a great way for MS to win meeting market share.
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Emma Chimonidou
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For some people with dyslexia this is not a preference but a requirement to help see.
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David
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I don’t understand. Excel is green, Word is blue, PowerPoint is “burnt orange”, I think. I get it. Your people don’t like purple, not my choice either, but out of all the things Teams needs, this is at the bottom. Tell your users to grow-up and deal with it.
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Anonymous
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test
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Anonymous
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It should be a clear background with dark font or viceversa. Impossible highlight and use bold font. It is getting worse!
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Anonymous
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The most disturbing thing is at Channel, the message editing box does not stands out, so you type message, and attach a picture, click send, only picture is send, and the text message is not, still in editing model, but need a close look to find out.
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Will Kaiser
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Up voted. This needs to at least be something that can be customized by the user. There is no application with a higher need for branding and personalization than this.
Actual teams typically have colors and images associated with them. Other platforms like Slack and Webex Teams are neutral in their default color schemes, allowing them to blend in with the team "brand". Microsoft is forcing their own branding here.
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Anonymous
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The visual design of TEAMS is very ugly. Similar problem with windows MAIL. New messages or unread emails don't stand out. It feels very cheap. There needs to be a more prominent difference in new/unread than simply Bold font.
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Anonymous
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Color blindness is a thing and not being able to adjust any of the colors to something that works with your vision is a problem. The tiny red\green status icons beside someone is nearly identical for me. High Contrast is not a solution as that is just a migraine waiting to happen. I can see color just similar ones blend in. Why is it so hard to allow customization of the interface?
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Anonymous
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Is there a way to change the colour? From the other feedback I guess not. :(
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Mina Nazier
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No harm if they added the color theme feature. People spends much more time on such program. Also MS teams is standalone from the rest of 365 package in regards of theming and colors (Visual Aid)
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Anonymous
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Actually Slack is way ahead in this customization, as it has "Themes" and you can personalise from a lot of predefined ones, this should also be the case for Teams, i imagine that the app needs to be completly built from the ground up to something like VSCODE to accept plugins, but i think that would be the best move Microsoft!
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Anonymous
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I'm dyslexic and the colour contrasts are a real problem. I can't read white words or icons on coloured backgrounds. The purple is horrific and the dark versions even worse. Microsoft needs to consider those with disabilities, weather like mine, colour blindness or partial sight if it wants people to use its applications. I configure outlook so why can't I do the same with teams
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Thomas
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The color should be the one configured for your organization (if any) in Office 365 settings !