Gmail adds colored labels

by Chris Gilmer Dec 4th 2007

Google's Gmail has been slowly adding new features like IMAP and group chat. The latest addition has been a high priority for many organizational obsessed users since the email service's inception.

Gmail users can now assign separate colors for each label. This allows you to easily categorize emails and recognize them at a glance by thee label color. To get started editing labels, you can click the square to the right of your label list and a color palette will appear. Edit name if you wish and click OK.

We've tested colored labels using Internet Explorer, Safari 3 and Firefox 2 and all appear to work.

Tags: color, email, gmail, google, labels

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

TEILLU said 11:39AM on 12-04-2007

It's possible these functions are only available for US users? Coz I can't see no one of the new features (even using Firefox 2.0.0.11) on my "spanish version"... :(

Great site, anyway!

Hylic said 11:54AM on 12-04-2007

It doesn't appear to work in opera.

Nicholas said 12:19PM on 12-04-2007

I'm brazilian, and it's working just fine here.. =]

Peter said 9:20PM on 12-04-2007

Colored labels don't work with the Vietnamese version, but it is perfect with the US version though.

zeep said 3:13AM on 12-05-2007

the whole "NEW" Gmail thing (label colours, contacts presentation) only works if Gmail is set to "English (US)".

go to "Settings" in the top right hand corner and choose "English (US)";
even "English (UK)" or any other language will not work yet.

Samuel said 1:30PM on 12-05-2007

well i can wait, i like to use eng uk spelling

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