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A logo is pictured at Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich April16, 2015. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann

Google has added hundreds of new themes and some new emoji to the service for users to pick from. This move enables the users to customize the look and feel of the Gmail web interface even further. Now Gmail will become more personal and fun to use.

Though themes have been a part of Gmail since 2008, in a recent blog post Google announced the changes. The post clarifies that there will a hundreds of images to use for backgrounds, many of which captured by Google staff. Google editing tools like blur, vignette and text background will allow you to make the image look suitable for your inbox.

Simultaneously, Gmail is also coming up with a host of new high resolution themes. The new catalogue will manifold the number into hundreds. These themes can also be edited with the in-built editing tools. Users having multiple Gmail accounts will be able to personalize accounts according to the purpose, e.g. personal and professional accounts. With a single glance the user identifies which account they are currently logged into.

Emoji has always been a popular and quick way of communication on mobile, eliminating the efforts to type on a smaller screen. Thus, in addition, Google has also rolled out new emoji to its web based email. The new add-ons include smiley faces, as well as other categories, like nature, holiday, food and precisely "just for every occasion." They are similar to those that you used on Hangouts, Google’s own mobile texting app. Today Gmail has a total of 900 million users all over the world. 75% of them use it from mobile devices. Upgradation of emoji is absolutely essential to keep Gmail mobile friendly.

New themes and hundreds of new emoji will start rolling out today and may take few days to reach to all users.

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