Metaculus / Metaculus/metaculus

Subquestion color picking

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Since Jul 13, 2026.

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Description

Context

Sometimes group subquestions and multiple choice options represent real world things that already have established colours, like U.S. Republicans being red, etc.

Feature description

Make group sub-questions' and multiple choice options' colours editable. The edit page can have a sub-question colour field and when you click on the coloured square you get to pick one of our theme colours that we already use for groups and multiple choice.

We don't need to check for duplicate colours, users can pay attention.

Here are two terrible mockups made in paint, please don't try to match the exact styles, it's jut a general idea:

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