Changing the color scheme of your Magento transaction e-mail templates
Now that you've changed the logo used in Magento's transactional e-mail templates, you may also want to change your e-mail template's color scheme.
Loading a Magento e-mail template
Navigate to System | Transactional Emails, and click on the Add New Template button at the top-right corner of the screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

From there, select an e-mail template you wish to overwrite; the following example uses the New Order template, which acts as the order confirmation e-mail template:

Click on the Load Template button, which will populate the panel below with the current contents of this e-mail template for you to alter. Firstly, populate the Template Name field as we're overwriting the New Order template. This will be New Order v2
, as shown in the following screenshot:

Next, in the Template Content field, you can overwrite any color references you need in the style
attributes within the e-mail template...