# Email FG/BG colors not taking effect
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071 "2018-07-11T10:42:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Rob\_Jeffrey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Jeffrey)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/1 "2018-07-11T10:42:11Z")
Hi all,
Are the settings ’ email accent bg color` & ‘email accent fg color’ working?
I still get blue ‘Visit Topic’ buttons and font in the email when I have set the above to orange & white.
Many thanks for taking the time to read,
Rob
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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/2 "2018-07-11T11:03:23Z")
Yes, they do work
What values are you adding, and how are you testing to see if this is working for you?
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### Author:  [@Rob\_Jeffrey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Jeffrey)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 10:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/3 "2018-07-13T10:32:07Z")
Thankyou for your reply,
The settings I am using are:
email accent fg color: #FFFFFF
email accent bg color: #FF765D
In the ‘preview digest’ everything looks great.
I am testing by replying to a topic and getting other users to reply back. As this email chain was started before I changed the email colors, could this be why I am not seeing the colors update?
I see the default blue like so: [Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life](https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ajral79b787shf/eg1.PNG?dl=0)
Many thanks for your help
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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/4 "2018-07-13T17:12:13Z")
Hi Rob
OK, this is something I will need to look into internally.
The settings you are changing and testing are used (mainly) for the **digest** emails. These are working, correct?
What you are referring to here, are the buttons in **notification** emails. These are, it seems, unaffected by that variable. These buttons probably should take either the site settings, or the digest settings.
Maybe @neil can comment on whether this is expected behaviour? How can we style the ‘Visit Topic’ button in notification emails?
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/5 "2018-07-13T19:14:13Z")
Looking at the code, it should be using the " email link color", but that doesn’t work either. So I’m not sure if this ever worked.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/9 "2018-07-16T17:26:54Z")
I made a fix to use those colour settings instead of hard-coded blue.
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### Author:  [@Rob\_Jeffrey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Jeffrey)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/10 "2018-07-17T09:15:54Z")
Thanks so much for looking into this guys
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-fg-bg-colors-not-taking-effect/92071/11 "2018-07-23T08:02:11Z")
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