


They see their own screen and assume that’s how everybody sees it, but that is not the case 90% of the time. You may not even know that something is wrong! A surprising amount of people that make their signature on their own, with tools like Word, Canva, or directly in their email settings, don’t even realize that many of their email recipients see their signature horrifically broken in some way or another. If you got even one of your measures wrong, your signature will break, get distorted, skew, partially show or not show at all. It doesn’t matter if you built your personal email signature as an image, as a table in Word, or actually coded it in HTML. The reason for this is that in actuality there is quite a lot that goes into making an email signature.Įven if we leave aside for a moment the design know-how that’s involved in creating a good looking email signature, you still have to make sure that your signature stays the way you made it, and unbroken, on all browsers, screen sizes, and devices (mobile, tablet and desktop). Personal email signatures go wrong often. If you’ve ever tried to create an email signature by yourself you probably know how frustrating and time consuming it can be to create something so simple (read our article on how to create a professional email signature to learn best practices and see examples in action). How to create your personal email signature
