# Simple Color vs Terminology Color usage

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/simple-color-vs-terminology-color-usage/20271>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/simple-color-vs-terminology-color-usage/20271 "2021-10-20T19:00:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/simple-color-vs-terminology-color-usage/20271/6 "2021-10-21T20:02:13Z")

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@DIV You mentioned over in the following post, about the clicks to set a basic color for segments.

> [@Segment Editor: reduce the number of mouse clicks to set basic colour for segment](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-reduce-the-number-of-mouse-clicks-to-set-basic-colour-for-segment/20236):
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> If I wish to set a Basic Color for a segment I need seven mouse clicks (or six operations): double-click the relevant swatch for Segment color; click Color in the (badly named) Slicer dialogue box; click Basic tab in the Select Color dialogue box; click a swatch under Basic colors; click OK in the Select Color dialogue box; click Select in the Slicer dialogue box. That is too many mouse clicks for a basic operation that I regularly perform. I often have multiple segments representing the sam…

How do you use colors? What is your use case? Have you used [terminologies](https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/modules/terminologies.html)?

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