

If we create a “gradient” that is made up of a single color, we can apply that to our text, and it will be displayed in Light Mode. This is unfortunate if you want to use an actual gradient of multiple colors, but it’s great news for fixing text problems in Dark Mode emails since it provides us with a way to control Light Mode and Dark Mode separately. These gradients also render in Outlook, which is great, but they get stripped away in Dark Mode. If you’ve used Word, you’ll know you can style your text in lots of different ways, one of which is by adding a gradient. The Microsoft Word rendering engine is what powers email rendering in Microsoft Outlook. Solution: Apply a Microsoft Text Gradient to Your Text And whilst most users can still read it, it’s not the effect you’re going for. However in Outlook Dark Mode emails, with colors switched, even though the header background is barely being adjusted the text is turning almost black.

The body has dark text on much paler green. Let’s say you have a medium green area with some large white text on it like this. Part 2 will deal with text color changes inside VML ( Vector Markup Language) shapes.In Part 1 of this Outlook 365 dark mode tutorial, we’ll take a look at color changes for text styled with colors using HTML and CSS only.When I mention “Outlook” in this article I am referring to the Microsoft 365 edition of Outlook for Windows. There are many versions of Microsoft Outlook.
