On Tue., 24 Jul. 2018, 5:17 am Carol Willing, <willingc@gmail.com> wrote:
A couple of years ago, I completely agreed that the labels were distracting when we were using them on Jupyter. Over time, I found that they were very helpful for triaging issues and viewing status/next actions when you have a large number of PRs.
One thing that I found helped quite a bit with the Christmas tree effect was to standardize the color scheme to either all black lettering on muted color or all white lettering on bright color.
I think this is going to be the key: choosing a deliberately muted display appearance for any informational labels that are intended primarily as search aids rather than as things to pick up on a quick visual scan of the full PR list. Cheers, Nick.