# Change color of personal messages

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-color-of-personal-messages/108816
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [February 11, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-color-of-personal-messages/108816 "2019-02-11T10:56:20Z")
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### Author: ![oca](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/oca/32/156060_2.png) [@oca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oca)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-color-of-personal-messages/108816/1 "2019-02-11T10:56:20Z")

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For some time I borrowed @ChrisBeach’s CSS snippet, so I converted it into a theme component, find the result here:

> **[Charlie / discourse-theme-colored-private-messages · GitLab](https://framagit.org/oca/discourse-theme-colored-private-messages)**
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> Framagit

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### What it does

It changes the appearance of the page when a personal message is being read:

- the head banner color (with a gradient),
- the font color,
- the background color,
- the title color,
- by adding some text after reply.

All these changes are optional and can be toggled with their on/off setting. The main «personal messages» color can also be changed with a setting. To tweak the different colors, edit the top part of the CSS file.

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