Does Mac OS X offer more than seven label colors?


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I have a folder that contains thousands of sports logos, and thus I like viewing them in List mode. Now, one thing I like to do is assign various colored labels so I can quickly associate a particular logo with a sport.

The problem, naturally, is that Mac OS X seems to only offer seven colors. Is there a way to add more? Perhaps even through third-party software? I'm surprised Apple never offered a simple color picker to extend the number of available colors.

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http://www.landsbert.dsl.pipex.com/colorlabels/

does that help, i dont use the color labels and really dont want to test this

or maybe this

http://www.trioxsoft.com/TrioxSite/main.htm sorry thats for windows ooooops

AHA!! maybe this is what you want

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27327/iconxprit

here is the developer page for iconxprit

http://trollin.loos.li/

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The purpose of having labels with color is that you can easily distinguish them.

Having too many colors will just make some of them look similar thereby missing their purpose...

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Why not put the separate sports in sub-folders? :s

-Rich-

I could, but that's not how I'd prefer to keep them organized.

The purpose of having labels with color is that you can easily distinguish them.

Having too many colors will just make some of them look similar thereby missing their purpose...

If you're colorblind, which I'm not.

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That would be the most counterproductive way to work ever :p

7 labels is already too much

Maybe there are third-party apps to do that, but it would require a Google Search.

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Well, iconxprit seems to be the closest solution I've found, although it honestly does more than I need. I just assume, then, that it's something that will never really be changed much. I can live with it, I just would have liked to have a simple color picker like in iCal to create some new color labels.

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Well, iconxprit seems to be the closest solution I've found, although it honestly does more than I need. I just assume, then, that it's something that will never really be changed much. I can live with it, I just would have liked to have a simple color picker like in iCal to create some new color labels.

Sorry, i searched for a long time after my last edit and i could not find anything else :( I even used BING for awhile (shudders) :p

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Have you thought about putting a letter before each one? That'll give you 26 options.

Yeah, I've ended up organizing them a different way. Just a shame I couldn't do it the way I really wanted to do it, though. I guess Apple feels that seven is enough for anybody.

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