diff --git a/tesseract_task_composer/core/src/task_composer_node.cpp b/tesseract_task_composer/core/src/task_composer_node.cpp
index d8c04a648c..2142c8171a 100644
--- a/tesseract_task_composer/core/src/task_composer_node.cpp
+++ b/tesseract_task_composer/core/src/task_composer_node.cpp
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ int TaskComposerNode::run(TaskComposerContext& context, OptionalTaskComposerExec
     info->input_keys = input_keys_;
     info->output_keys = output_keys_;
     info->return_value = 0;
-    info->color = "white";
+    info->color = "grey";
     info->status_code = 0;
     info->status_message = "Aborted";
     info->aborted_ = true;