When you open your calendar and see a wall of events, colour becomes your fastest navigation tool. A quick glance should tell you what’s a client meeting, what’s a personal commitment, and what’s a blocker from another calendar. That’s why Calendrz lets you customize the colour of your marker events — so synced availability fits seamlessly into how you already organize your calendar.
Why Marker Colours Matter
Calendrz creates “marker” events on your calendars to show blocked time from your other accounts. By default, these markers blend in with your regular events. But if you want to distinguish them at a glance — and most users do — you can assign a specific colour to each calendar’s markers.
For example:
- Sage green for blockers from your personal calendar
- Lavender for blockers from Client A’s calendar
- Flamingo for blockers from Client B’s calendar
When you look at your work calendar, the colour instantly tells you why a time slot is blocked — without revealing any details about the actual event.
Available Marker Colours
Calendrz supports eight marker colours that match common calendar colour schemes:
- Graphite — subtle, neutral blocker
- Blueberry — standout blue for important accounts
- Lavender — soft purple, great for client work
- Sage — calm green for personal calendars
- Flamingo — pink, easy to spot at a glance
- Tangerine — warm orange for high-priority accounts
- Banana — yellow, good for tentative blockers
- Peacock — teal for a distinctive look
These colours were chosen to work well in both Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, so your markers look natural regardless of which platform you’re viewing them in.
How to Set Marker Colours
Setting a marker colour is straightforward:
- Open app.calendrz.com
- Navigate to your connected calendars
- Select the calendar you want to customize
- Choose a marker colour from the palette
- Calendrz will apply that colour to all new markers created for that calendar
The change takes effect on the next sync cycle. Existing markers on your calendar will be updated to reflect the new colour choice.
Colour-Coding Strategies
Here are a few strategies that Calendrz users find effective:
By Source Account
Assign one colour per connected account. Personal = sage, Work = blueberry, Client = flamingo. You can immediately tell which account is responsible for blocking any given time slot.
By Priority
Use warm colours (tangerine, flamingo) for high-priority accounts and cool colours (sage, lavender) for lower-priority ones. Your eye naturally gravitates to warm colours, so important blockers stand out.
By Category
If you separate calendars by activity type (meetings, focus time, personal), assign colours by category. Meetings = blueberry, focus blocks = graphite, personal = sage.
A Small Feature with Big Impact
Colour-coding sounds like a minor detail, but in practice it transforms how you read your calendar. Instead of clicking into each blocker to understand where it came from, the colour tells you instantly. Over a week, that saves dozens of small interruptions — and makes your calendar feel organized rather than cluttered.
Combined with Calendrz’s custom summary macros (which let you format what the marker text says), you get a calendar that’s both informative and clean.
