# Custom colour labels?

**URL:** <https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/custom-colour-labels/7438>\
**Category:** TotalFinder\
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/custom-colour-labels/7438 "2019-11-26T18:21:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/darwin/32/2275_2.png) [@darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/darwin)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/custom-colour-labels/7438/2 "2019-11-26T22:44:12Z")

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I just looked into it and it seems to be a hard task. Unfortunately Finder is using quite low-level API from DesktopServicesPriv and HIServices frameworks to obtain actual label colors. I didn’t find an easy way how to override that functionality.

During my investigation I found source of color definitions in HIServices framework binary. The logic is implemented in CopyLabelColorAndName which uses default (cached) colors hardcoded in the binary or alternatively looks into `com.apple.Labels.plist`.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to define custom colors via `com.apple.Labels.plist`, maybe this functionality is somehow disabled under Catalina and that legacy code-path is never executed, or I don’t know how to trigger it.

btw. this `com.apple.Labels.plist` was interpreted as one other user reported in 2014: [Problems with tag colors](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/problems-with-tag-colors/1691)

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