Inconsistency with the colour of "To Do" statuses between the status button and the transition dropdown list

Issue Summary

As per Jira 9.0 release notes the workflow statuses and transitions were all moved to a button in the issue view page.

That new design introduced an inconsistency with the colour of statuses that belong in the "To Do" category, between the status button and the transition dropdown list.

Let's take the example of the Open status which, by default, belongs to the "To Do" status category:

• This status will show as grey in the button view
  
• However, if an issue is in a different status, if we look at the workflow transition dropdown, we can see that the "Open" status shows as blue/grey:
  

Note

Note that this inconsistency only happens with statuses that are in the "To Do" category. For statuses that are in the "In Progress" and the "Done" category, there is no inconsistency: the same colour for these statuses is shown in the status button and in the workflow dropdown:

• Example of issue which is in a status that belongs to the "In progress" category
  
• Example of issue which is in a status that belongs to the "Done" category
  

Workaround

To ensure that the "To Do" status showing in the button shows in grey/blue along with white text, you can add the following CSS code to the announcement banner in ⚙ > System > Announcement Banner:

<style type="text/css">
#opsbar-opsbar-transitions .aui-button.opsbar-transitions__status-category_new:not(:active) {
    --aui-btn-bg: #42526e;
    --aui-btn-text: #fff;
}
</style>

When doing so, the status that belongs to the "To Do" category will show like this:

Note that this workaround is not officially supported by Atlassian, since we cannot guarantee that it will work on future versions. It should be tested throughly on a test environment before applying it on production.