Tips on making email signature mobile friendly?

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Caketiger

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#275623 1-Sep-2020 10:49

Does anyone have any good guidance on this? I recently changed my work email signature and realised it did not look too good when I sent it to my gmail and looked at it on my phone.

I have found a fair but of guidance by googling but nothing definitive. A lot of the articles are by people trying to sell you their software.

I use Outlook in case that is relevant.

SirHumphreyAppleby

2844 posts

Uber Geek

#2554750 1-Sep-2020 12:32

Use plain text and a maximum of 78 characters per line.

If you must use HTML, stick to basic markup and avoid style sheets. Images should be attached using Content-Disposition Inline and be part of the multipart/related MIME section, otherwise some clients may not display them at all.

Oblivian

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#2554767 1-Sep-2020 13:27

And friends don't let friends use word to edit them outside of outlook :)

Check out the size they become in plain text when you use fancy fonts etc! O.m.g

Back in the day I use to write them and style in notepad outside the editor, only using it to check if formatting was screwed up or not. But in reality little needs to be in them. And fancy font's outside the webkits or built in mail clients can make it go funky. Stick to Aerial and Courier etc. (google/web fonts can only be used in Tbird, not outlook clients)

Don't need the 'think before printing' thing that everyone felt good about some years ago. And I chuckle at including email mailto:address.

Like.. what did you just send with a reply address in it... (sure, valid if your outbound a shared box or delegation)

Think I've seen brandished about stick to w300x600 for mobile. And <7 lines.

ResponseMediaNZ

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#2554826 1-Sep-2020 15:12

Caketiger:

Does anyone have any good guidance on this? I recently changed my work email signature and realised it did not look too good when I sent it to my gmail and looked at it on my phone.

I have found a fair but of guidance by googling but nothing definitive. A lot of the articles are by people trying to sell you their software.

I use Outlook in case that is relevant.

Does the organisation have a signature policy? There is a few inline applications that do company-wide signatures.

If you have freedom https://www.mail-signatures.com/signature-generator/ this is good