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Custom colors for your Supertags

Many users have asked for it, and now it's here: set any custom color on your supertags. Choose from the full color spectrum to make Tana feel more like yours.
  • Brage Bang Bjørkmo
  • Dec 11, 2025

Whether you want to add personality to your workspace, align your tags with brand colors, or make structures visually easier to parse, the color picker for supertags now gives you the freedom to design a system that feels natural to you.

What’s new in the supertag color picker

The new picker gives you full control while ensuring colors stay accessible and look great across Tana’s light and dark themes.

  • Choose any hue from the full color spectrum, then fine-tune the shade using the color canvas to adjust brightness, saturation and contrast.
  • Work with precise HEX, RGB or HSV values, whether you want to match brand colors or build a consistent visual system across your workspace.
  • Preview how your color adapts in light and dark mode, ensuring it remains readable in all contexts. Tana automatically applies subtle adjustments so colors remain readable no matter where they appear.
  • Or generate a random color for fast experimentation.

The supertag color will be applied on the supertags shown on content, set as a gradient on the supertag home page (click the tag to see all tagged content), and in the node bullet of tagged items, so they're instantly recognizable.

What makes supertags so powerful

Supertags already sit at the heart of how Tana works. They turn raw notes into structured knowledge, allow patterns to emerge over time, and make your information findable and actionable.

Colors add a new layer of meaning to those structures, helping your brain skim, group and recall information faster. The ability to shape your system visually is a small but powerful step in making Tana a workspace that thinks with you and adapts to how you process information.

If you are just getting started, supertags are one of the biggest reasons people choose Tana over traditional note-taking or database tools. They:

  • Evolve structure as your thinking evolves rather than locking you into rigid templates
  • Let you view the same information in different contexts
  • Make tasks, meetings, projects, people and ideas instantly searchable and connected (with the options from supertag field type)
  • Configure custom workflows and processing of information with AI instructions for voice memos, meeting summaries, tasks and more.

This flexibility aligns with how your brain actually works. You capture first, then shape structure later. Supertags become your personal scaffolding for thinking, acting and deciding.

This is part of Tana’s larger philosophy: a workspace that adapts to you, not the other way around.

Why color matters for thinking

Color is one of the fastest ways the brain encodes meaning. When used intentionally, it reduces effort, speeds up scanning and lowers the mental load of navigating complex information.

Here are creative ways users can use color to make Tana calmer, clearer and more supportive of different cognitive styles:

1. Reduce overwhelm by signaling category at a glance

Assign consistent colors to your core supertags: #Meeting, #Task, #Person, #Project, #Idea, etc.

Create a predictable mental map so your eyes find what they need before you consciously think about it.

2. Ease transitions between contexts

Executives, managers and neurodivergent users often struggle with rapid context switching. Color can act as a visual anchor so your brain instantly knows “what mode” you're in.

For example:

  • Warm colors for action-oriented tags (tasks, priorities)
  • Cool colors for thinking-oriented tags (ideas, research)
  • Neutral colors for reference information

3. Surface urgency and status

Even without reading text, you can communicate state:

  • High-priority tasks in a saturated color
  • Upcoming meetings in a softer tone
  • Completed or dormant items in more muted shades

4. Create a brand-aligned workspace

For consultants, creators and teams, matching brand colors can make your workspace feel cohesive and professional. If you run a client workspace, their color palette can become a cue that you’re in the right place.

5. Support neurodivergent workflows

Many neurodivergent users rely on color to regulate attention and reduce cognitive friction. They’ve told us Tana’s structure already helps them capture fast-moving thoughts and think more clearly. Color builds on that by:

  • Improving scannability
  • Creating strong memory associations
  • Reducing the need to re-evaluate every line
  • Making large outlines less visually dense

Color becomes not decoration, but a subtle guide rail for staying oriented.

How to start using custom colors

Open the supertag configuration, select the color picker, and choose any color that fits your system. You can adjust easily as your workflows evolve.