Microsoft Bookings – English calendar does not display colors

Dear @Aline Xavier,
Thank you very much for the detailed information and for sharing the screenshots. We really appreciate your time and effort in helping us investigate this.

Based on your confirmation and the examples provided, we can see that the behavior is consistent across multiple users, browsers, Teams, and different shared booking calendars, and that it changes only when the Bookings calendar language is set to English.

In Microsoft Bookings, the staff availability statuses (Busy, Tentative, etc.) are working correctly, but the color display depends on the calendar language setting. When the language is set to Portuguese, Spanish, or French, the internal Bookings calendar loads stronger color styles for these statuses. When it is set to English, most statuses are shown in a very light gray, while “Away” remains clearly visible.

This confirms that this is a visual UI rendering behavior related to the English language setting, not a configuration issue, permissions issue, browser issue, or a problem with your calendar data.

At the moment, there is no setting in Microsoft Bookings that allows manual control or customization of staff status colors. The color scheme is managed by the product design and localization logic.

While there is no direct fix yet, you may consider the following temporary options:

• Keep the Bookings calendar language set to Portuguese, Spanish, or French if clear color visibility is important for internal scheduling.
• Rely on the status labels (text) in addition to colors when reviewing availability in the English view.

Moreover, I want you to know that Microsoft deeply values customer experience and feedback. Every single comment matter, and the product teams actively review what customers share to guide decisions and improvements. Your voice is powerful here, and I encourage you to make it heard through the official feedback channels. Therefore, to ensure your feedback reaches the right teams, I highly recommend submitting your feedback directly to Microsoft Ideas · Community, where our product development team can know your requirements and ideas for product improvements. If enough users raise ticket for the same idea, Microsoft may consider adding this feature in the future.

Note: As Microsoft Community moderators, please note that we are not involved in product design decisions and do not have direct access to the development roadmap, we want to assure you that your feedback has been acknowledged and is valued.

However, you can rest assured that you are not alone, I’ll continue to monitor this case and will reach out to you with any new updates as soon as possible. If any updates or announcements are made regarding this feature, I will make sure to share them with you as soon as possible.

I understand this may not be the outcome you were hoping for. I truly appreciate your patience and understanding. If you have any further questions or need further clarification, please feel free to reach out. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you for your cooperation.