CHROME EXTENSION · 2026
Bring Back Yellow Chevrons
Yellow Important Marker for Gmail
A tiny browser extension that restores Gmail's classic yellow Important chevrons. Free, automatic and private by design: it changes one colour and nothing else.
- TYPE
- Chrome extension
- WORKS ON
- Gmail in Chrome
- PRICE
- Free
- STATUS
- Live
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
- 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.
“One purpose: restore the yellow Important marker. No toolbar, popup, settings screen or customisation system. It makes the change and gets out of your way.”
How to use it
- 01Install Bring Back Yellow Chevrons.
- 02Open Gmail.
- 03If Gmail was already open when you installed it, refresh the tab.
- 04Your active Important markers appear yellow automatically. That's it.
Built and maintained by TeamW2S
Need something built? Talk to the crew 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.