Hi Darren, there is a newer ticket: CONF-27618. It is still open, and you can vote there.

Agree with the others above. We upgraded from 4.2.8 to 5.2.6 primarily to take advantage of improved tables functionality and the colour backgrounds.

We could not believe it when we went to start applying the background colours and found a palette of only 5 colours and no picker. Totally ridiculous. It's 2014 not the 1990's!

We're a software company with a variety of internal and external spaces and a number of software products. We need a decent selection of tables background colours so we can consistently match the documentation to the particular products (eg. the primary colour in the logo and desktop of each application) and provide a professional appearance to thousands of customers.

How is this not a STANDARD feature in Confluence?

Closing the issue in 4.3 by adding 5 colours is like a builder being commissioned to build a house but simply pitching a tent and saying "Job done!"

I can only strongly agree with the other comments. I am using Confluence for knowledge management of my company and simply put information has to be arranged in an attractive way for the users. Cell highlighting with bold colors definitely plays an important role in that. I would love to see this feature in the near future!

General use case: you just cannot force 5 or 6 colors and intend that they serve all the possible themes and visual goals of a table.

Highlighting information via table is something complicated, mainly when the table is complex and large. The larger and the more complex they are, the higher the justification for a wide range of colors available. Limiting colors just make it more complicated or even impossible.

Please consider allowing a color picker. I can understand it may become complicated from the Atlassian developer's point of view (although I cannot guess the complexity), but from users' point of view is just adding a color picker.

Thanks in advance for reconsidering this possibility.

This really is something Admins should be able to define... better yet, implement a global default defined by Confluence admins and allow space admins to define it at the space level.

Another use case - Our builds use many different base builds (due to many release and development branches that we have) and we have more than 10 base builds. We want to keep track of our servers, their current versions, and color the cells based off of what base build they use. Since we only have 6 colors (with one of them being striped) and it doesn't support hex colors or color picker, we are limited in how we can setup our tables and server tracking.

Also the pastel colors don't match our confluence theme and the color schemes our projects use so the table colors look out of place.

My use case is that I have a page where our customer can download logos. Some of them are white with transparent background, to be used in pages with black background. To showcase them properly I would need a black background.

Here it is:
https://test.resurs.com/docs/display/ecom/Logos

I agree with the dude proposing a color picker. I upvoted the related issue.

see also https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27618. More people want that ! Please consider to change your mind.

Our company would like to have this feature as well. (Can't vote for it, as closed tickets apparently don't allow to?)

Reasons for requesting it:
1) same use case as Jens
2) for pages to be shown on overhead projectors, the current colors are too pale, they don't show up at the wall enough.

I would love to have this feature. Migrating our table Wiki content to Jira here at my work, I am frustrated by not having the ability to color table cells any color I want. It is useful to make cells black and then set the text white for call outs or table titles. Setting bold colors is also very useful to draw attention to important information in tables. Only having 6 pastel colors is very restrictive. Please consider adding this feature.