Own dark Gmail theme.

When time allows, I am also an avid reader/updater of microblogging sites (mainly Twitter @mmmattos).
Seesmic Web and Twiter Miner are my preferred online tools for tweeting online and both provide a very pleasant, easy on the eyes dark themes.

Gmail, which I use as my personal email, has recently enabled canned themes, but unfortunately none as nice looking and pleasant on the eyes as I would like, so I decided (since they also enabled that alternative) to create my own Gmail theme.

The process is quite simple. You just need to get the hex RGB color representation for each color you would like to use. Write them down and click in the “Custom colors” theme option within the Settings/Theme configuration screen.

Gmail themes - Custom Color Settings pop-up

Clicking on each of the sections in the screen shown above, will reveal a drop that allows you to select different color combinations of background, text, link and snippet colors, if available in the clicked section.

Playing around with those setting I came to the combination presented to you, next, which is closer to the pleasant, easy on the eyes dark colored themes I´ve found in other tools´ themes.

The downside with Gmail themes is that you cannot save your custom themes. So if by mistake you switch to other theme, you´ll nees to remember and re-apply your custom settings to get it back.

No more delays, here is my custom theme.

My dark colors Gmail theme

If you liked it, drop a comment. In a next post I´ll share the color RGB codes for that setup.