# Kibana Tables colors

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tables-colors/297356>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 16, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tables-colors/297356 "2022-02-16T10:41:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![aaron1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@aaron1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron1)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tables-colors/297356/1 "2022-02-16T10:41:43Z")

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I want to create a table that has severity levels of high medium and low and I want the words High medium and low to be in different colors. Is that possible in Kibana?

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tables-colors/297356/2 "2022-02-17T17:04:05Z")

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Hi @aaron1,

welcome to the Kibana community!

I think you have two options for this use case:

- You can configure a formatter for the `severity` field in the `DataViews`/`Index pattern` management panel and use the `Color` formatter. Once configured the color will apply for all visualizations using this field.

 ![Screenshot 2022-02-17 at 17.59.26](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/2/62dc868b38160e5ce4075711b0ecb265152895ed.png)

- If you can create a runtime field that maps each string to a number, you could use Lens datatable dynamic coloring to configure a custom palette based on numeric values. You won't have the actual text value in the cell rather than numeric one, but color already encodes the severity meaning. The advantage of this approach is that other visualizations won't be affected by the coloring.

We're working in Lens to make color by term easier in the future, but it's still in development: [[Lens] Support categorical coloring by name · Issue #101942 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/101942)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tables-colors/297356/3 "2022-03-17T17:04:23Z")

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