# Can't get the chat email notification header text color right

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-the-chat-email-notification-header-text-color-right/295503
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email, chat
**Created:** [February 15, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-the-chat-email-notification-header-text-color-right/295503 "2024-02-15T16:30:37Z")
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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-the-chat-email-notification-header-text-color-right/295503/1 "2024-02-15T16:30:37Z")

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We’ve got a dark colour selected for our site header, with a light colour for the text:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/3/e/63e825e65cc32dea22f45396f1e9ef3c7094dd5f.png)

However, our notification emails do not seem to be respecting the `header primary` color:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/9/6/b965ce6618a4b598712930a3330fe8879a377ca2.png)

I’ve had a poke around all the settings, but can’t find anything awry. We haven’t fiddled with the Activity Summary styling or the email styling at all (both vanilla).

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-the-chat-email-notification-header-text-color-right/295503/2 "2024-02-15T17:18:19Z")

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Hiya Nathan 👋 is this only happening with chat email notifications or other email notifications like digest email as well? I wonder if this is related to general email digest dark palette issues:

> [@Investigating activity summary email dark mode issues](https://meta.discourse.org/t/investigating-activity-summary-email-dark-mode-issues/282272):
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> This was intended to be a short post with a few pictures and an easily applied solution. It’s gotten out of hand. HTML email is difficult. For some fun, here’s how it can go wrong: [Gmail's dark mode · Issue #68 · hteumeuleu/email-bugs · GitHub](https://github.com/hteumeuleu/email-bugs/issues/68#issuecomment-626680608) slight_smile Feel free to skim this post and look at the pictures. By the end of the post I’d more or less come to the conclusion that due to the popularity of dark mode, it might be worth reworking the digest email, instead of trying to hack solutions …

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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-the-chat-email-notification-header-text-color-right/295503/3 "2024-02-15T23:30:23Z")

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Thanks Lilly

I’ve established a test-user to get some useful examples. It might just be the chat notification header as you suggest. And I think you are right re the dark mode email thing.

I’ll dig a little deeper into that and get back to you if I have come up with anything useful or get stuck.