Gmail – How to create a pure custom color for Gmail tags
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Right now I can only pick from a very limited gradient for background/text color for tabs in Gmail like so:
I would like to truly customize them (i.e. provide hex values or chose from a picker). How can I do that?
Best Answer
To do this, pick a selected checkbox and inspect it. You should see three RGB values (One in the "title" of the box, one in its style, and one in the "aria-label" of the overall element). I edited all three and got it to work, but my guess would be that editing just the "aria-label" and/or the "title" should work.
"clear the color of an existing custom color label (freeing up a color slot) and then change the color of the label to one of the default colors (taking up a color slot) and crucially making that default color available for other labels"
Can be achieved through the Gmail user interface by following the steps below (make sure that you perform step 3; failing to perform step 3 initially made me think that this workaround did not work).
Find a label with a custom color.
In the label-options pop-up, click "Remove color"
REFRESH YOUR BROWSER - the color slot that you just made available can only be used after a browser refresh.
Find a label with no color.
In the label-options pop-up, set the label color to a default color.
A message will now appear,
"The color for the label was adjusted".
The label will become colored and this default color is now available for other labels. Problem solved! :-)
Repeat this process for every default color that you want to restore.
In order to restore all 24 default colors quickly, do the following,
Clear 24 custom colors.
Remember to refresh your browser after removing the custom colors.
Then create 24 new labels (named "label1", "label2", "label3" et cetera - you can give the labels more obscure names if you don't want them to appear in suggested search).
Set each label to a different default color.
As long as you keep these labels, all 24 default colors will be available for you to use with other labels. If Gmail ever changes their default color values again, then you can update the colors on these 24 labels to match.
In order to reply from your other accounts you will need to add the each reply-to addresses/accounts through Accounts and Imports one time (not every time you reply), which you access through
Settings >> Accounts and Imports.
In the Send mail as section you click on 'Add another email address you own', enter the name and email address for your desired email account, and follow through with gmail's verification process- which requires that you have access/own the other email account.
Once you have this set up you will be able to reply from the account/address of your choosing by expanding the email header section of your reply (by default it's condensed) and changing your From address via dropdown:
If you're replying to or forwarding a message, click the field where
your recipients are listed, then click From. After clicking From,
you'll see a drop-down menu next to your address, where you can select
the email address you'd like to send from.
Best Answer
To do this, pick a selected checkbox and inspect it. You should see three RGB values (One in the "title" of the box, one in its style, and one in the "aria-label" of the overall element). I edited all three and got it to work, but my guess would be that editing just the "aria-label" and/or the "title" should work.