Google Mail Color Labels
To my pleasant surprise (and total accident), I noticed that the Google Mail “labels” now have “color” in the drop-down. You can select different colors to visually identify the important e-mails from the not-so-important ones. This is a welcome update for me. I used to love the color-coding of email messages on the Lotus Notes platform and I am super-happy to see it on my Google Mail/Google Apps service. Yay for Google!
Changing label colors
To change the color of a label:
On the left side of the Gmail page, click the square to the right of a label.
Note: If you don’t have any labels yet, first create a label to see the options above.
- Select a color from the palette that appears. Changes will be instantly reflected in Gmail.
- You may also customize colors for your labels by clicking on the square to the right of a label and selecting Add custom color.
You can remove a color by selecting Remove color at the bottom of the color palette.
