Gmail Added Hundreds More Themes And Emoji

Gmail has finally come through with a major design overhaul to jazz up our email experience.
On Tuesday, Gmail announced a newly expanded theme catalog and a brand new set of emoji for email messages. Gmail users can now access more than 100 high-resolution images to use as their inbox backgrounds or -- as before -- upload a personal image.

To access the new themes, head over to Settings > Theme and select your background image in the pop-up box. After picking background photo, users can further customize it by blurring or adding a vignette -- A la Instagram -- for an even better visual experience. The email text box color can also be lightened or darkened to maintain readability.

Gmail has also added more high-quality emojis to email messages. Previously, users could pick from a range of smaller, more basic characters to spice up their messages; with this new update, they will be able to access larger, higher quality emojis -- though they are no longer animated.

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