[Chartjs]-Chart.js label color

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Guh I solved it, sorry about the question. But I guess I’ll leave an answer in case anyone else runs into my problem.

var ctx = document.getElementById("barChart");
    var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
        type: "bar",
        data: {
            labels: ["label 1", "label 2"], 
            datasets: [{
                label: "My Label",
                backgroundColor: "rgba(159,170,174,0.8)",
                borderWidth: 1,
                hoverBackgroundColor: "rgba(232,105,90,0.8)",
                hoverBorderColor: "orange",
                scaleStepWidth: 1,
                  data: [4, 5]
            }]
        },
        options: { 
            legend: {
                labels: {
                    fontColor: "blue",
                    fontSize: 18
                }
            },
            scales: {
                yAxes: [{
                    ticks: {
                        fontColor: "green",
                        fontSize: 18,
                        stepSize: 1,
                        beginAtZero: true
                    }
                }],
                xAxes: [{
                    ticks: {
                        fontColor: "purple",
                        fontSize: 14,
                        stepSize: 1,
                        beginAtZero: true
                    }
                }]
            }
        }
    });
   <!-- Edit:
   chart.js recently released new version v3.x
   which is not backwards compatible with v2.x
   -->

<!--<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js"></script>-->

   <!-- above link gets you latest version of chart.js (at v3.3.2 now)
        hence snippet didn't work propperly anymore :-(
   -->

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@2.9.4"></script>

   <!-- above link gets you v2.9.4
        and snippet works agian  :-)
   -->

<div>
    <canvas id="barChart" height="140"></canvas>
</div>

49👍

Good question and good answer from @PhantomSalt

His answer works perfectly well with ……. chart.js v2.xx
I modified his good code to work with .. chart.js v3.xx

(v3.xx is not backwards compatible with v2.xx)

// var ctx = document.getElementById("barChart")
const ctx = document.getElementById("barChart").getContext("2d"); // added '.getContext("2d")'

const myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
  type: "bar",
  data: {
    labels: ["label 1", "label 2"],
    datasets: [{
      label: "My Label",
      backgroundColor: "rgba(159,170,174,0.8)",
      borderWidth: 1,
      hoverBackgroundColor: "rgba(232,105,90,0.8)",
      hoverBorderColor: "orange",
      scaleStepWidth: 1,
      data: [4, 5]
    }]
  },
  options: {
    plugins: {  // 'legend' now within object 'plugins {}'
      legend: {
        labels: {
          color: "blue",  // not 'fontColor:' anymore
          // fontSize: 18  // not 'fontSize:' anymore
          font: {
            size: 18 // 'size' now within object 'font {}'
          }
        }
      }
    },
    scales: {
      y: {  // not 'yAxes: [{' anymore (not an array anymore)
        ticks: {
          color: "green", // not 'fontColor:' anymore
          // fontSize: 18,
          font: {
            size: 18, // 'size' now within object 'font {}'
          },
          stepSize: 1,
          beginAtZero: true
        }
      },
      x: {  // not 'xAxes: [{' anymore (not an array anymore)
        ticks: {
          color: "purple",  // not 'fontColor:' anymore
          //fontSize: 14,
          font: {
            size: 14 // 'size' now within object 'font {}'
          },
          stepSize: 1,
          beginAtZero: true
        }
      }
    }
  }
});
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js"></script>
  <!-- gets you the latest version of Chart.js, now at v3.3.2 -->

<div>
  <canvas id="barChart" height="140"></canvas>
</div>

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this worked for me to change label color

data:{
 datasets:[{
  color: '#232323'
 }]
}

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