mono
Everything stacked, generously led, a single weight carrying the emphasis.
| Ada Lovelace |
| Principal |
| Analytical Studio |
| ada@example.com |
| +44 20 7946 0123 |
| analytical.example.com |
| London |
| monosigned |
Correspondence
An email signature,considered.
Every email leaves an impression. Make yours with a signature that knows what to leave out.
Free to make. Yours to keep. No account.
New message
Tomartin@kestrel.example
SubjectRevised drawings
…so the revised drawings should reach you on Thursday.Best,
| Ada Lovelace |
| Principal |
| Analytical Studio |
| ada@example.com |
| +44 20 7946 0123 |
| analytical.example.com |
| London |
| monosigned |
The usual
Nobody clicksyour social icons.
A logo, five social icons, three phone numbers, a plea about printing, and a paragraph of legal grey. Everything anyone thought to add, crowding the one sentence you actually meant.
Ada Lovelace
Principal Consultant, Strategic Partnerships & Growth
ANALYTICAL STUDIO GMBH
T +49 30 1234567 · M +49 170 1234567 · F +49 30 1234568
ada@analytical.example.com | www.analytical.example.com
Follow us: LinkedIn · X · Instagram · Facebook · YouTube
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
This message and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Analytical Studio GmbH, Registered in Berlin, HRB 000000, VAT DE000000000.
What most people send
| Ada Lovelace |
| Principal |
| Analytical Studio |
| ada@example.com |
| +44 20 7946 0123 |
| analytical.example.com |
| London |
| monosigned |
What you'll send instead
The three
Three templates,no decision to regret.
One discipline, three styles. Nothing to configure, nothing to add, nothing to get wrong. The restraint is the product.
line
Name and title on one line, parted by a hairline.
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| Copenhagen | ||||
| monosigned |
initial
A monogram set in type, and the details beside it.
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How it's built
Built for the inbox,not for the browser.
A mail client is not a browser, and each one keeps its own rules. Most signatures are made as though a browser will render them. Yours is made to the rules that actually apply.
Nested tables, inline styles, padding on cells.
The one arrangement every mail client renders the same way twice, Outlook's Word engine included. No flexbox, no grid, no margins, no stylesheet to be stripped out on the way in.
No webfonts, nothing to fail.
System sans or Georgia, and nothing else. Nothing to download, nothing to fail, nothing that arrives as Times New Roman in front of the person you are writing to.
480 pixels wide, never one more.
Cut to the width of the message rather than stretched past it, on a phone as surely as on a desktop.
No images, no scripts, nothing to block.
Nothing to be blocked, nothing to arrive as a red cross. The monogram is type, not a picture of type.
Every character escaped, every link checked.
Every character you type is escaped and every link inspected before either reaches the output. Only mailto, tel and https are let through.
Dark mode won't swallow it.
Greys chosen so the signature holds its ground when a client inverts the page behind it, instead of disappearing into the black.
Gmail, Apple Mail and Outlook. Desktop and web. Pasted once.
Yours
Type your name.That's the hard part.
Type straight onto the page. Choose a visual appearance, find your colour, then copy. Your details stay in your browser.
Click a line to edit.
Only your name is required. Leave anything else blank.
Branding
A small "monosigned" at the foot of the signature.
Add your name first.
Setup
Four steps,then never again.
Copy it, then follow these. A minute of your attention, once, and after that it simply arrives at the end of everything you send.
- In Gmail, click the gear icon at the top right, then See all settings.
- Scroll down to Signature and click Create new. Give it any name.
- Click into the big box and paste.
- Underneath, pick it for new emails and replies. Then Save changes.
- In Mail, open Settings from the menu bar, then click Signatures.
- Choose your email account on the left, then click the + button.
- Click into the box on the right and paste.
- Untick 'Always match my default message font', or Mail will strip the styling.
- In Outlook, open Settings, then Mail, then Compose and reply.
- Click New signature and give it any name.
- Click into the box and paste.
- Set it for new messages and replies, then Save.
On the Outlook desktop app the path is File, then Options, then Mail, then Signatures.