Making the right-click menu (it's NOT a contextual menu) more contextual would also help here: Currently, right-clicking on an item in the Project Panel brings up a huge menu, regardless of whether you click on the item's name or the item's label swatch. I suggest that right-clicking on the label swatch should bring up just the label options, exactly like in After Effects. I'm on PPro 22.6.0x32.

Some people have suggested getting rid of the names altogether. Doing so is NOT an option since then how can users assign keyboard shortcuts to specific labels? Rather, the colours should have been given 'normal' names from the get-go. The simple addition of colour swatches in the context menu is long overdue.

If this is too difficult (since menu appearance is controlled by the OS) then just default to normal color names. Or keep your "fun" names and have a toggle in preferences where we can switch between your names and normal color names. (It's tedious to do it one by one.)

When you go to color code something, you right click it then select “label” and it gives you a list of colors, but there’s no way to see what color you are choosing other than the name. This wastes a lot of time because I am constantly choosing the wrong color because I can’t see what color I’m choosing just the name of it.

Adobe support told me to just go to PREFERENCES>LABELS and then I would be able to reference which color is which but theres no way I am going to do this every time I am color coding.

There should be a color icon next to the name of the color when you right click>label.

Please fix this

2021 still not improve. Thanks Adobe.

100% would LOVE this to happen

I agree 100%! This is what it could look like (see image). What are you waiting for Adobe? ;)

I'd like to see this! Looks like it's been 2 ½ years since it was suggested. Come on Slowdobe!

I was just thinking of this. Glad others would find it useful as well. This is a simple but time saving change!

We made extension, where you can easy to change and rename label colors in Premiere Pro! https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.104622.color-it-change-label-colors.html?fbclid=IwAR3BtxP1-lM5R1H9y4kRtdV1fHMCfV9pTUK_jFHBAZWPGRqZfJ_Hvi0kfcg

I do not know why this doesn't have more votes. I like to label my clips to differentiate by speaker, but what we need are just the color swatches, not even the names, and, even better, custom text for each color so I know what the colors refer to as reference when coming back to a project.

This fix is a gimme. Please employ.

Yes, this is very urgent. With all due respect, but nobody is able to imagine colors with fancy names like Caribbean or Cerulean. Sample colors in the menu would save users around the globe millions of hours.

Or just use sensible names for them. Not Caribbean, Cerulean and Iris. Because no-one knows that means Dark green. And you could just call it 'Dark green'.

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/38984074-give-label-colours-less-stupid-names

yes. It's common sense

Color picker is already used extensively in FX so can't see this would be a very difficult feature to include and would improve workflow.

Even better would be a dockable panel just like this:
https://aescripts.com/labels/

That would let you pick a color and do all kinds of the things you do with labels, like select all from a certain group, at one quick click. It would fit perfectly either to the right of the timeline next to the AU meters or to the left next to the selection tools

Yes that is definitely something that would help.
By the way, Eric, you can change the „esoteric names“ in the settings ;)

I agree. A swatch book is far more intuitive than a list of words for picking colors. Especially when half the colors have very esoteric names.