Google Releases Themes for Hosted Email

Well it’s about friggin’ time! I saw themes on my buddy’s regular GMail account in November of last year. Immediately I went looking for the setting in my hosted service and sure enough it was not there. I remember reading about the service from Google’s blog but was never sure when they would be working on it for us hosted clients.

This really seems like a simple upgrade to the Gmail interface but in all honesty every individual has an easier time looking at certain colours and contrasts. If you use Gmail as much as I do, then the default blank white theme can get tired on you fast. It is a clean look but is fatiguing to the eye.

The options they have provided to us are simple in reality. If you look at the image below you will see that most of the themes are colour adjustments but they do what they are supposed to. They offer us all an option to look at something different.

They have also created a section where you can make a custom theme or change the settings for your current theme. The chooser is simple and should be fast to edit what you would like to adjust.

So welcome to all my fellow hosted google mail users. We can all enjoy this new feature that was released today!