---
title: "Bring Back Yellow Chevrons"
description: "Yellow Important Marker for Gmail"
url: https://teamw2s.com/en-au/resources/open-source/bring-back-yellow-chevrons/
language: en-au
site: "teamW2S"
updated: 2026-10-02T18:52:31+00:00
---

# Bring Back Yellow Chevrons

> Yellow Important Marker for Gmail

- Type: Chrome extension
- Works on: Gmail in Chrome
- Price: Free

## Why it exists

Gmail's Important markers can change colour with interface updates. If you scan your inbox by colour, a marker that suddenly looks different is easy to miss. Bring Back Yellow Chevrons restores the familiar yellow/gold Important chevrons, and leaves everything else about Gmail exactly as it is.

## What it does

- Restores the yellow/gold Gmail Important chevrons
- Works automatically whenever you use Gmail
- Updates as messages change, without reloading
- Keeps up with Gmail's changing interface
- Keeps Gmail's own Important controls and behaviour
- Needs no configuration
- Adds no extra buttons, popups or settings

## What it doesn't do

- Change which emails Gmail considers Important
- Read or modify the contents of your emails
- Use the Gmail API
- Need any account connection beyond using Gmail normally
- Collect analytics, show ads or use tracking scripts
- Send your information to external servers

## Privacy first

- Runs locally in your browser.
- Only runs on mail.google.com, because it needs the Gmail page to find active Important markers and recolour them.
- No email content, personal information, browsing history or account data is collected, stored, sold or transmitted.
- No analytics services, tracking pixels, advertising networks, remote scripts or external processing.

## How to use it

1. Install Bring Back Yellow Chevrons.
2. Open Gmail.
3. If Gmail was already open when you installed it, refresh the tab.
4. Your active Important markers appear yellow automatically. That's it.

_Gmail is a trademark of Google LLC. Bring Back Yellow Chevrons is an independent browser extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC._