Make an email signature that survives Gmail and Outlook
Rich signatures break in transit. A single table with inline styles is the markup mail clients reliably keep — build one plus a plain-text fallback.
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The job
Mail clients strip external CSS, most classes, and scripts. What survives is a table with style attributes on every cell. The builder emits exactly that — plus a text-only signature for clients that show plain text.
Fields to markup
Fill name, title, company, phone, email, website, and pick an accent color. The HTML version escapes every field — a < in your job title can't break the markup — and links email via mailto: and the site via https://.
Worked example
Ada Lovelace, Engineer at Analytical Engines, +44 20 7946 0018, ada@example.com, example.com, accent #1a56db produces a three-line signature: the name in accent color, then title — company, then phone · mailto link · site link. Paste the HTML into Gmail's signature box as-is.
Scope
Each field up to 120 characters; one name is required. Logos and images are deliberately not embedded — linked images get blocked by default anyway. No social icons; add them as text links if needed.