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Colors & conversations

Speudio uses a small, consistent colour language so you can read a screen at a glance: each color means one thing, everywhere. The colours are inspired by the light of the Aegean: whitewash and charcoal, sea-teal, sun-gold and a few warm earth tones.

You and the AI

Teal is you: your messages, your buttons, your links and the controls you act with. Gold means the AI, and nothing else: wherever you see a gilt mark, that's Speudio's assistant talking. Each assistant signs with its own small mark: Iris, the mailbox-wide assistant, with an arc; Mnemo, the per-contact one, with a coiled thread.

Citation chips

When Iris or Mnemo answers, every source it used shows up as a small card you can click to open. The card has two lines: what it is, and a short detail under it. The coloured square on the left tells you the kind at a glance:

  • Email: blue. The subject, then who sent it and the date, for example Evgenia S. · Oct 3.
  • File: coloured by type. PDF red, spreadsheet green, document orange, image plum, anything else tan. The type (PDF, DOCX, XLSX...) is written inside the coloured square, under the icon. Under the name you see the size and the date of the email the file came with, for example 214 KB · Oct 3.
  • Contact. The person's picture, or their initials, in a small rectangle next to their name.

Point at a card, or move to it with the Tab key, to see a short preview: the subject and first line of an email, or the file name and who sent it.

One more state, and it is deliberately quiet. If a card points at something Speudio can no longer open, it turns grey, stops being clickable and reads Not available any more with Can't be opened under it. That usually means the email, file or person was removed after the answer was written, for example because you deactivated or deleted that contact. The answer itself is left exactly as it was written, so the sentence still reads and you can see what it was pointing at.

A grey chip that still carries the source's own name means something else, and it is rare. Speudio knows exactly what that source is, it just has no way to open it from the screen you are on. Nothing has been removed in that case.

Conversation bubbles

In a chat or an email timeline, the colors separate who said what:

  • Your messages: teal. Anything you send sits in a teal bubble on the right.
  • The AI: a gilt mark on a clean card. AI answers land on a plain card with the assistant's small gold mark, so long answers stay easy to read.
  • Incoming email: grey. Messages from the person you're talking to sit in a quiet grey bubble on the left, with their picture (or their initials) beside it.
  • Someone else: apricot with a golden-brown edge. Someone else on the thread (for example a person on Cc) gets an apricot bubble with a golden-brown edge, their picture with a golden-brown ring and the label "Third person".
  • A forwarded copy: pink. A copy of mail that was passed on to this person shows in a soft pink bubble with a plum edge and a square picture with an arrow.
  • Via a service: beige with a dashed edge. A message sent through a website form or another service, with a dashed square picture and the label "Via a service".
  • Unread / new: green. A new message has a green border and a "New" tag until you read it.

The colour is never the only sign: the side, the picture, the edge and the label always say the same.

You can pick your own colours for the email conversation. Open a contact's conversation and press the palette button at the top. The window lists each kind of message with its colour. You can change any of them, put one back to its normal colour, or reset them all. Your choice applies to all your conversations. A colour you pick changes the bubble only; the picture, the edge and the label stay. If two of your colours look almost the same, the window tells you.

Status colors

A few colors always carry the same meaning across the app:

  • Success: olive green. Done, healthy, connected or verified.
  • Warning: terracotta. Something needs attention soon: getting close to a limit, or offline.
  • Danger: pomegranate red. An error, or an action that deletes or disconnects something.
  • New mail: green. The number on Contacts, the New mail band and a new message in a conversation.
  • Sent lately: blue. The Sent lately band.
  • Important: gold. Contacts you star as important wear a gold crown and a soft gold tint.

You don't need to memorise any of this; it's there so the app feels calm and you can find what matters without reading every label.