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Trello provides six color codes for cards. I can change the name of those labels, but I don't seem to be able to add more.

I would like to label cards by "service area", and it happens we have twelve of those. (Maybe that's too many service areas, but that's the setup we have, and while it might need changing, changing it to fit a new tool isn't the right approach.)

Is there a way to add additional labels? Is there a different tagging mechanism which would suit the purpose better?

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Well, you could use multiple flags as a binary representation. That way you can separate 16 different service areas using only four flags ;-p (hope this made you smile, and that somebody else might be able to give you a serious answer as well ;-)) – Nailuj Sep 20 '11 at 13:23

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No, Trello only supports 6 colored labels.

We didn't want to have too many, because we didn't want to overload people, and it can be difficult to find lots of colors that are easy to differentiate.

You could attempt to solve the problem by naming your cards with prefixes that represent the different service areas.

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Any chance for leaving those six as the default but letting me add others for a specific board? Using a prefix makes more overload..... – mattdm Sep 20 '11 at 14:46
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@Daniel LeCheminant - it would be great to have full support for tags on a task (just like asana :) ) – leora Oct 19 '11 at 18:19
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It is strange that I can add lists and add cards, but I can't add tags. One of the very few things that I've found disappointing about Trello! – Jonathan Williams Mar 16 at 11:48

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