Create a Colored Label Manager custom field

Managing native Jira labels don’t require creating a Colored Label Manager custom field.

Features of Colored Label Manager specific fields that are not supported on Jira native ‘Labels’ field.

Activate coloring to labels.
Select 'Customize labels for this project' to manage predefined labels for this project independent from other projects.
Allow project admins to manage available label items for their project independent from other projects or Jira administrator’s help.
Add a description to your label to make the context more clear to your project users , Jira users can always check to see whether a label already exists before creating it; remember, too, that it might simply be a question of spelling or case variation..

Colored Label Manager custom fields can be created like Jira native custom fields

As Jira Administrator:

Click on Settings
Go to → Issues
Click on Custom fields (Side-navigation)

Click on Create custom field Button
Select All → Search Label
→ Select Colored Labels
Click Next

Enter a Name and Description
Click Create

Optional: Associate the new created field with screens
Click on update
Label Manager Custom Fields behave like normal custom fields and need to be put on the correct screens to appear in projects.

Create a new Label

In this page you can create a new Label and give it a description and a color , add it to one or multiple issues, or just create it and let it be used by Jira users.

Atlassian Expert good practices

Avoid using abbreviations unless they are widely understood and accepted by your team. This will, in turn, help avoid synonyms.
Always add a description to your label to make context of uses more clear to your team .
Always check to see whether a label already exists before creating it; remember, too, that it might simply be a question of spelling or case variation.

You can also click on Click to see issues to jump to the issue navigator and see a list of all issues with the label.

Selecting Label Color Settings

Just like other settings - you can select the projects specific ‘Label Color Settings' in the project administrations page.

New created Label have by default the color grey-light.

Label specific color means, that just like Epics, label will have a predefined color.

Colors can indicate labels with higher priority, or whatever you like those colors to mean within your Jira instance.

You can always change the label color.

Just select the color you like the label to have. We will likely add more colors in the future.

Already assigned labels on issues will get the color updated based on selection.

Checking Label Use in Your Project

Go to your project and open the Project Labels from the sidebar. You should see something like this:

This is a list of all the Jira Colored labels used in your project.

The description field is optional, you can use it to make the label context more clear to your team.

The Click to see issues column shows you how many times a label has been used. Clicking on that link opens a new tab with a filter that shows all issues with that label in your project.

Renaming a Jira Label

Using Colored Label Manager, you can rename label as needed just click on the label you want to rename and make the change.

The renaming will be reflected in all issues where the label was used.

To rename labels:

Go to your project
Open the Project labels from the left sidebar.
Click on the label and rename it

Please note: If you are in global mode, administrative actions (rename, delete etc.) will affect all projects. If you do not want this, use per project label management.

Merging Jira Labels

Sometimes, you will need to merge two labels. remember, too, that it might simply be a question of spelling or case variation. like in the screenshot below: