I’ve always thought that Gmail has one of the best interfaces out there in terms of web-based email clients, but not everyone may feel the same way. In true Google fashion they are starting to roll out a feature where users can choose from 30 awesome looking themes that will give your Inbox a fresh new feel.
This new feature isn’t going to be part of Gmail Labs either. Once the themes have been rolled out to your account you should notice a new Themes tab in the settings. Alternatively this link will take you directly to the theme settings provided that it has been activated for your account.
Here’s a quick look at a variety of the themes available (notice the ASCII theme in the bottom-left corner):
Bravo Google! You’ve really out done yourself this time. Now there’s just one thing that would really put this over the top, and that would be if they create some sort of system so that designers can create and upload their own themes. I’m not going to complain though because the set of themes they currently have available is pretty amazing.
P.S. I have one account that has this feature already, and another that doesn’t. So be patient why this gets rolled out to everyone.
Read more about the new themes over at the Gmail Blog
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Neat! Almost makes me want to get a Gmail account…
I don’t think they should allow designers to upload themes. Why? Cos so many times I’ve used themes on various softwares out there they are corrupt, imperfect, off-skew, missing items and unpolished garbage. So many people think they are designers when quite simply, they are not
I agree with Michael: instead of designers, users should be able to upload themes (just like with the gadgets)
I’d love to be able to add the Globex theme to Gmail like that, though I have to say these default themes are not bad at all either!
Thanks Ryan, Google never ceases to surprise me. They are thinking of everything to exceed its users expectations. I love these themes.
Your theme pictures are very nice too.
Great post.
They can, of course, screen the themes before adding them. But there have been a lot of awesome designer-created themes for iGoogle.
The Gmail blog assembled that image, and I thought it did a great job portraying the various themes.
Nice! Makes me love Google more and more everytime!
I can’t find any themes tab in gmail settings
A spam filter would be better than themes ~~
Are you kidding me? They have the best spam filter of all webmail services afaik.
I agree with Change. In the past four years, Gmail’s spam filter has been polished to the point that I’ve had 2 spam emails get through to my in-box. That’s cracking!
Gmail is the champion of web-mail. First IMAP support and now some kewl themes. Nice work Google.
Steel is by far my favorite…terminal is good for the first 5 seconds!
I definitely agree with you Change. The spam filter Gmail has is incredible. Every now and then I’ll have a few emails slip through, but I’ll mark them as spam and it learns from its mistakes. Even better, however, is that I’ve never had someone tell me that they sent me an email and actually had it land in the spam folder.
I love the Ninja theme – also, it changes throughout the day, almost like it’s telling a story.