You may be cognizant that Apple ’s Mail program has the power to color incoming subject matter , using the Rules section of its Preferences — check out the News from Apple convention at Mail - > Preferences - > Rules for an illustration of how this work out . But did you know you’re able to apply your own colour dodge to already - get messages ( as well as sent messages ) , straightaway in the Mail viewer window ? It ’s amazingly easy to do , and ( as of 10.4 ) works quite well — in 10.3 , colorized content would lose their color when move to another folder .
Color can be quite useful to aid you identify critically authoritative messages , highlight items you postulate to act on , or simply to make your inbox a less black - and - white place to be :
Today ’s wind is well used for “ ad hoc ” gloss — when you want to apply a color to a substance on a one - time foundation . If you have regular correspondence that you ’d wish to see in different colors , your better off using Mail ’s Rules . That way , the coloring is reflex , and can be based on the conditions you show . But if you do n’t require or need a dominion , here ’s how to color messages on the fly ball .
First , you ’ll need to have the color selector ( as seen at powerful ) seeable , so pick out Show Colors from the Format menu . Now comes the concentrated part . press a substance in Mail ’s subject matter tilt , then click a color on the color picker . OK , so I was lie about that being hard . That ’s it ; as soon as you click a color , it will be applied to the take message ( or messages , if you select more than one ) . notice that you ca n’t control the text color of the subject matter , so you ’ll want to dumbfound to idle shades for your colors — otherwise , the school text fields in the message tilt wo n’t be visible . Also , you ca n’t sort by the colors you ’ve applied — so this is stricly a tip to help draw your centre to sure messages based on their color .
If you ’re going to do a fair morsel of colour , you may want to make some customs duty colors for use in Mail . To do this , just drag a colour from the wheel to one of the boxes at the bottom of the colour chooser . If you need more elbow room for custom color , you could show more boxes by sweep the Zen at the bottom of the selector . you’re able to use this technique to create a row of your own colors for use just with Mail , as circled in the image at veracious .
If you need , you could do even fancier thing to create your own semblance schemes — see “ Take Command of Color ” from the February 2006 issue ofMacworldand this OS X Hints writeup for more on the secret of the colouration selector .
