Utilities

Build an email signature that survives Outlook

Fill in your details, pick a template, copy it, paste it into your mail settings. The markup is built the old-fashioned way on purpose, because that is the only kind Outlook still renders correctly.

You
Contact
Photo or logo

It has to be a public URL. Mail clients block images pasted as data, so an uploaded file would show as a broken square.

No URL? Here is where to put the file
  • Your own websiteBest by a distance. Upload to your own domain and the link lasts as long as the company does.
  • GitHubFree, stable, and nobody is going to delete it. Put the file in a public repo, open it, and copy the address of the raw image.
  • CloudinaryA real image CDN with a free tier. Overkill for one photo, ideal if you are rolling signatures out across a team.
  • ImgBBNo account needed. Upload, then copy the "Direct link" — not the page link.
  • PostimagesSame idea as ImgBB. Choose "Direct link" from the list it gives you afterwards.

Not Google Drive or Dropbox. Their share links point at a viewer page, not the image, so mail clients show nothing. Whatever you use, the address has to end in .png or .jpg — if it does not, it is a page about the image rather than the image.

Prefer a PNG with a transparent background. A JPEG logo shows its white box the moment somebody reads your mail in dark mode.

Or pick the Monogram template, which uses your initials and needs no image at all.

Links

These render as text links rather than icons. Icon images live on somebody else’s server, and when that server goes away every signature you ever sent shows broken squares.

Button
Style

Only fonts already on the reader’s machine. Mail clients do not download web fonts.

Template

A photo or logo beside your details, split by a coloured divider.

Preview

Shown on white, the way a mail client would. Your photo appears as a placeholder here because this page never makes an outbound request — in the signature itself the real image is used.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No account required
  • Free to use

How it works

01

Tables, because Outlook uses Word

Outlook 2016 and later render mail with Microsoft Word’s engine, which has no flexbox, no grid and no reliable float. A signature built with modern CSS collapses into a stack of text there — and Outlook is where a lot of business email is read. Every template here is a table.

02

Styles go inline, one by one

Gmail strips a style block out of anything you paste, which takes the whole design with it. So there is no stylesheet: every rule sits on the element it applies to, and there are no class names left pointing at nothing.

03

It is built in your browser

No account, no server, no signature stored anywhere. Your name, number and photo URL are typed into a form that never sends them — the preview is drawn without even loading your image, so nothing of your details reaches anyone.

What it does

Six templates that differ

Minimal, photo left, card, banner, compact and one with a button — not one layout in six colours.

Live preview on white

Rendered in an isolated frame so what you see is the signature, not the signature wearing this site’s stylesheet.

Copy formatted, or copy the code

One button puts the formatted signature on your clipboard for Gmail and Outlook. Another gives you the raw HTML for a signature manager.

Dark mode considered

Text is a mid grey rather than pure black, which is what stops a signature turning into a glowing white slab when a client inverts it.

Practical advice

Getting a better result

  • Paste with the "Copy signature" button, not by copying the HTML — Gmail and Outlook want the formatting, and pasting markup into their signature box gives you a wall of angle brackets.
  • Your photo or logo has to live at a public URL. Mail clients block images pasted as data, so an uploaded file would arrive as a broken square for everyone who reads it.
  • Use a PNG with a transparent background, not a JPEG. In dark mode the white rectangle around a JPEG logo is glaringly obvious.
  • Keep it to four or five lines. A signature longer than the reply above it is the most common mistake, and it is worse on a phone.
  • Send yourself a test and open it on a phone, in Outlook and in Gmail before you settle. That is fifteen minutes that saves a year of sending something broken.
  • Skip the social icons debate: these are text links because image icons are hosted somewhere, and when that somewhere disappears every signature you ever sent shows a broken square.

Questions

Things people ask

Is anything I type sent anywhere?

No. The signature is built in your browser and never leaves it. There is no account and no upload endpoint, and a Content Security Policy allows no upload destination at all.

That last part is why your photo shows as a placeholder in the preview — displaying it would mean fetching it from another server, which would break the promise. The signature you copy has the real URL in it.

How do I add this to Gmail?

Press "Copy signature", then in Gmail go to Settings, See all settings, and scroll to Signature. Create one, click into the box and paste. Save changes at the bottom of the page — it is easy to miss.

How do I add this to Outlook?

Press "Copy signature". In new Outlook and Outlook on the web, go to Settings, Mail, Compose and reply, and paste into the signature box. In classic desktop Outlook it is File, Options, Mail, Signatures.

Paste rather than using "Insert HTML" — Outlook’s signature editor takes formatted content directly.

Why does my signature look different in Outlook?

Because Outlook renders mail with Word rather than a browser engine. Spacing is the usual difference: Word adds its own margins around paragraphs and handles line height differently, so a signature can look slightly looser there than in the preview.

What should not happen is a collapse — columns stacking, images at the wrong size, the layout falling apart. These templates are tables with sizes on the tags specifically to avoid that.

Can I use a custom font?

Not usefully. Mail clients do not download web fonts, so a signature asking for one silently falls back to something else, and you never see what your reader sees. The fonts offered here are ones already installed on the machines your mail lands on.

Where can I host my photo or logo for free?

Your own website is the best answer by a long way — the link lasts as long as the company does. Failing that, GitHub is free and stable: put the image in a public repository, open it, and copy the address of the raw file. Cloudinary has a free tier and is a proper image CDN, which is what you want if you are rolling signatures out across a team.

For a single photo with no account, ImgBB and Postimages both work. Upload, then copy the direct link they offer rather than the link to the page around it.

Google Drive and Dropbox share links do not work. They point at a viewer page rather than at the image, so mail clients show nothing at all. Whatever you use, the address you paste has to end in .png or .jpg.

Why are there no social media icons?

Because icons in a signature are images hosted on a server somewhere, and signatures outlive servers. Every broken-square signature you have ever received was an icon whose host went away.

Text links have none of that problem, they work in dark mode, they are readable by a screen reader, and they never fail to load.

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