The Dark Side of Mint Green
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- On iOS, Google does not include the option to select the text color – or it's very well hidden.
- You can't choose that exact color in a browser, either. Gmail's support for dark mode is still clunky: even when using a dark theme, it only partly applies, and the Compose window stays light. You can force dark in Chrome (chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark), but the results are still rough. Hardly anybody could use that for work, especially for a symmetry-loving person like the email's sender.
- Perhaps the mint green was picked in Gmail while in light mode, even though the type would be barely visible on a white background. Yet the swatches available in the Gmail app do not include #BDDAA4. Google offers similar greens, but not the same. The lightest shade in the palette is #D9EAD3 / rgb(217, 234, 211), and the step after that is #B6D7A8 / rgb(182, 215, 168): very, very close, but not identical.
- It is technically possible to hack formatting in an outgoing email by tweaking the HTML in Chrome's inspector, but it's niche and brittle and again seems like a long-shot possibility.
- Gmail on Android comes with a color picker for text, but that too does not include #BDDAA4 (which also covers the possibility that I simply didn’t look hard enough for the formatting options on iOS)
- Because the headers are Gmail-specific (
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Slight saturation nudge after meeting WCAG
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