Using colours to categorise ideas

Adding color to ideas can make your retrospective more engaging and easier to interpret at a glance. Whether you're highlighting topics, visualizing team participation, or customizing manually, colors help bring structure and clarity to the discussion.

• COLOR BY TOPIC – Automatically colors ideas based on their topic for easy visual grouping.
• COLOR BY WHO ADDED – Uses participant-specific colors to show individual contributions (not available in anonymous mode).
• COLOR MANUALLY– Lets you assign colors to ideas by right-clicking and choosing a color.

HOW TO COLOR BY WHO ADDED

• This gives you an immediate visual overview of what kind of ideas were shared.
• This setting is useful when you are grouping ideas across different topics. 

HOW TO COLOR BY WHO ADDED (Only available when the anonymous setting is not activated)

• This gives you an immediate visual overview of your team’s participation.
• Ideas will match the color of their owner. 

HOW TO COLOR MANUALLY

• This allows you to individually color ideas. 
• Right-click on the idea to bring up a list of available colors.