This recipe will be much appreciated by busy stores that require quick references to the status of a recent order without doing a search from the drop-down list. Choosing colors to highlight the status of each order will group your orders visually, so they can easily be distinguished.
Note
Chef's suggestion:
While you can use any color to highlight status, here traffic light colors were selected with Pending being red, Processing being yellow, and Delivered being green.
The following screenshot shows Administration | Customers | Orders with the order status colored according to its value: