Overview
In dark mode, email apps do not leave your design alone. Some look for instructions, and the ones that find none invent their own colors. Mailkick lets you give those instructions: a Dark version for each color in your Style Library, previewed in the editor before you send. Everything lives in Style Library > Dark mode, behind two switches.Both settings apply to all emails at their next export or sync. Emails you exported before turning them on are unchanged.
Turn it on
Open Style Library > Dark mode and switch on Custom dark theme. Until you do, the Dark color fields are ignored and your emails export exactly as they do today.Give your colors a dark version
Go to Style Library > Styles and open a color. Each color token now has two fields, Light and Dark.Linked by default
Dark starts on the same value as Light. A color you never touch keeps the same appearance in both themes.
Type to unlink
Entering a different value in Dark unlinks it. Entering the Light value again relinks the two.
Preview before you send
When Custom dark theme is on, a moon button appears in the editor next to the desktop and mobile toggle. Click it to render the canvas with your dark colors, click again to come back. This is the same resolution path as the export, so what the canvas shows is what the email will contain.Dark mode images
A logo drawn in near black disappears on a dark background. Select an image, then use Dark mode image in the image panel to upload a second version. The element header shows a moon badge once an image has a dark version, so you can see at a glance which ones are covered.What each email app actually does
This is the part worth knowing before you spend an afternoon picking dark colors.
So a dark theme is a real improvement for part of your audience, not a guarantee for all of it. Treat it as a refinement, never as the only way your email is readable.
Force light mode in Gmail
Gmail on phones is the awkward case: it ignores your dark colors and applies its own inversion, which can turn a carefully built email into something you would not recognize. Style Library > Dark mode > Force light mode in Gmail declares the email as light only, which is the signal Gmail reads to leave it alone and keep your Light colors.Turn it on when
Brand colors matter more than dark comfort, or Gmail’s automatic recoloring makes your email hard to read.
Leave it off when
You would rather let each recipient’s app do what it wants, including a dark version you did not choose.