Gmail Label Colors - Gmail Greasemonkey Script

Gmail Label Colors turns the tiny green labels you apply to messages in Gmail for organization into colorful buttons that make that certain category stand out. It's a pity Gmail Label Colors does not integrate with Gmail too well.

The free-form labels liberally applied to any message for organization, comfort and sanity are among Gmail's best features, of course. Can they be improved? With regard how miserably tiny and green, indistinctive and hard to be seen these labels can be, yes.

Gmail Label Colors helps you make the "urgent!" label stand out and the "recipes to try" badge look appealing. Of course, the strong colors are best used sparingly, and there's nothing wrong with using Gmail Label Colors alongside a majority of standard tiny and green Gmail labels.

So how does a label get its color? Gmail Label Colors picks it up from the name. Add "#red" to a label's name ("urgent!" becomes "urgent! #red") to make it red, for example. Colors can also be specified by their hex code, as you know it from doing your web pages.

While Gmail Label Colors will dutifully remove the code from the name in the message list, the Gmail label box will bear #red and #61B329 — not a pretty sight. Unfortunately, Gmail Label Colors does not remove the code when you open a conversation either.

An alternative to specifying colors in labels names is to edit the Gmail Label Colors script and apply colors to certain labels in the background. This, of course, is more cumbersome and less portable.