Free tool

Email signature generator.

Type your details, copy the signature, paste it into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail. No signup, no watermark, no tracking pixel, and no images to break for the people who block them.

Fill this in and you get a professional email signature you can paste into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail. No signup, no email address, no watermark and no tracking pixel. The markup is a table with inline styles and no images, which is the only construction that survives every major mail client, including the ones that block remote content by default.

Everything is optional except your name. Leave a field blank and the row disappears.

Preview

Put your name in and the signature appears here.

Nothing is stored. No images and no web fonts, so it renders the same in every mail client.

Getting it in

Three clients, three slightly different routes.

All three want the rendered signature rather than the source, with one exception noted below.

Gmail

Settings, then See all settings, then scroll down the General tab to Signature. Create one, paste, and save at the very bottom of the page — the save button is a long way below the box and is the single most common reason a Gmail signature does not stick.

Outlook

New Outlook and Outlook on the web: Settings, Mail, Compose and reply. Classic desktop Outlook: File, Options, Mail, Signatures. Outlook renders mail through Word, so if a paste comes out flattened, use Show HTML above and paste the source into whichever HTML field your version exposes.

Apple Mail

Mail, Settings, Signatures. Pick the account in the left column first, or the signature is created against the wrong one. Untick Always match my default message font before pasting, or Mail will strip the formatting on the way in.

The honest limit

A signature goes stale the day your number changes.

Same problem as a printed card, in a different place.

What you paste today is a snapshot. Change your mobile number, your job title or your company and you have to edit it again in every client on every device, and every email you have already sent still carries the old one. The way around that is not a better signature generator: it is to make the link the durable part. Point the link row at a hosted card and the signature never needs editing again, because the card behind it is what changes. That is what Cardr is, and it is free.

Questions

About this tool.

Is this email signature generator free?

Yes, with no signup, no email address and no watermark. You can use the output commercially, for a whole team, without attribution. It is here because a free tool is a better argument for the paid product than an advert for it.

How do I add the signature to Gmail?

Press Copy signature above, then in Gmail open Settings, See all settings, and scroll to the Signature block on the General tab. Create a signature, paste into the box, and save at the bottom of the page. Gmail keeps the formatting because you are pasting rendered HTML rather than source.

How do I add it to Outlook?

Outlook is the awkward one. In new Outlook and Outlook on the web, press Copy signature and paste into Settings, Mail, Compose and reply. In classic desktop Outlook, paste into File, Options, Mail, Signatures. If the formatting collapses, that is Outlook stripping styles, and the fix is to use Show HTML and paste the source into whichever field your version offers for it.

How do I add it to Apple Mail?

Mail, Settings, Signatures, pick the account on the left, create a signature and paste into the right-hand pane. Untick "Always match my default message font" first, or Mail will strip the formatting as you paste.

Why is there no logo or photo in it?

On purpose. An image in a signature is loaded from a remote server, and a large share of recipients block remote content by default, so what they see is a broken-image icon under your name. Corporate mail gateways strip them too. A signature built from text and one accent rule looks intentional everywhere, which an image cannot promise.

Why is the HTML a table with inline styles?

Because Outlook renders mail with Microsoft Word, which ignores <style> blocks, has no support for flexbox or grid, and collapses margins unpredictably. A table with inline styles is the only layout that renders identically across Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and the rest. It is not how anyone would write a web page; it is how email has to be written.

What should an email signature include?

Your name, your role, one phone number, and one link. That is it. Legal disclaimers, social icon rows, quotes and "please consider the environment" lines all lower the chance that the one thing you wanted clicked gets clicked. If you put your card link in, make it the only link.

Can I put my digital business card in my signature?

That is the best use of the link row, and it is the reason the field is there. A signature link that saves your full contact details in one tap is doing more work than a homepage URL, and if it points at a hosted card you can change your number later without editing anybody’s signature.

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