Status
A status shows where a record stands, as a word on a colored fill: Permit requested, Documents missing, Visa approved. It is data, set by a person or by an automation, and it changes when the record does.
What it is
| Candidate | Role | Work permit |
|---|---|---|
| Bishal Tamang | Welder | Visa approved |
| Maria Santos | Care assistant | Permit requested |
| Arjun Mehta | Electrician | Documents missing |
| Nikola Petrović | Warehouse operative | Not started |
| Emina Hadžić | Welder | Empty |
| Candidate | Role | Work permit |
|---|---|---|
| Bishal Tamang | Welder | Visa approved |
| Maria Santos | Care assistant | Permit requested |
| Arjun Mehta | Electrician | Documents missing |
| Nikola Petrović | Warehouse operative | Not started |
| Emina Hadžić | Welder | Empty |
A status or a decoration
A label takes this shape only when it shows a value that lives in a field or a record.
The work permit column of a board, the stage of a candidate in a notification, the state of a job ad: change the record and the label changes with it.
A label that repeats a heading, announces New or Beta, or marks a card as important holds no value. It is decoration, and it is not used. Navigation and marketing pages carry no status, since nothing on them changes state.
In a board
The label fills its cell less a small inset, so a column of statuses reads as one band of color. The radius is about a third of the height: rounded, not a capsule.
- Label
- 13 px, weight 500, centered
- Words
- white on every fill
- --on-brand
- Padding
- 8 px all around
- --space-2
- Inset from the cell
- 6 px on each side
- Corner radius
- 9 px
- Height in a board row
- 29 px
- Chip on a phone card
- 36 px high, 12 px label
- No status
- a hyphen on gray
Beside a title or in a message
Beside a candidate's name or inside a notification, use the quiet form: a fully rounded tint of the color under a darker ink of the same hue.
- DraftNeutral
- Interview bookedBrand
- Offer acceptedSuccess
- CV missingWarning
- Permit refusedError
- DraftNeutral
- Interview bookedBrand
- Offer acceptedSuccess
- CV missingWarning
- Permit refusedError
- Label
- 11 px, weight 500
- Padding
- 2 px above and below, 8 px at the sides
- --space-2
- Corner radius
- fully rounded
- --radius-full
- Fill
- the color at 15 percent
- --success
- Ink
- the darker ink of the same color
- --success-ink
- Neutral fill and ink
- control gray, full ink
- --surface-control
Color and words
Every status fill carries white words, and one value keeps one color on every board. Color helps a recruiter scan a column, but the word carries the value: a status never appears as a dot or a fill without its word.
Write the value as the field holds it, in sentence case, never in capitals.
Empty and unassigned
A status that is not set shows a hyphen on gray in its cell. Where a word is needed, such as in a group heading or a chart legend, it reads Empty, or Unassigned when the field holds a person.
Accessibility
A screen reader hears the column and the value: Work permit, Documents missing. A status drawn as an icon, such as a done check, carries its word as its name. A status takes no focus of its own. When it opens a picker, the cell is the button.