Thinkspace - Color-Coded Data Types
Column pills reflect data types in several ways. For example, in order to make it easy to identify data types, each pill is color-coded, as follows:

Which features are available to the data is dependent on the data type. For example, the default alignment of the data in a column is Left for Text and Date/Time data, Right for Numeric data. Dates use the Short Date format (mm/dd/yyyy) by default and numbers include a thousands separator (nnn,nnn).