New Gmail themes

My GMail account suddenly sprouted some gorgeous themes! This is the "candy" one, which I like coz of the awesome GMail logo. Almost as good is the ASCII art logo from the "terminal" theme. The "ninja" theme changes GMail's star icon into a ninja star.Seems like a weird thing for Google -- the lords of clean minimal web design -- to do, but whatever. I called the return of the "indulgent/ornate" design ethic a few years back, maybe this is the GOverlords catching up.

Posted by email from Daniel Baird (posterous)