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5 awesome animated email signature examples

Animated Email Signatures - a GIFload of examples and ideas

Animated email signatures are perfect if you want to catch the attention of your recipients. A smart animated banner or logo can make a lasting impression. The challenge is coming up with a jaw-dropping animation idea and including it in your design project… That’s why I’d love to share some animated email signature ideas to inspire you. So, have a look at the 5 fresh animated email signature examples and learn how to easily create your own successful signature project.

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Animated email signature examples

Let’s start with some visual aids. The examples below show some simple animations and demonstrate how you can use them to elevate your email signatures.

Example 1: Event Promo

Event promo signature example

Organizing large conferences and other events is a demanding task. To make the most of your effort, it’s a great idea to promote those events with every email you send. This animated email signature design uses a simple transition to channel your readers’ attention where you want it. It doesn’t mean that this example can only be used for event promotion. Add your own animated GIF with a killer CTA to get the traffic flowing right where you want it.

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Example 2: Furnish Your Space

Furnish your space - email signature template

Here’s a good idea for an animated email signature banner. This example shows some interior designs, and it can link to your website. However, you can easily edit the banner to showcase any other type of work – websites, arts, and crafts… you name it! It’s a great way to include your freelancer’s portfolio in emails to prospects. Just don’t go overboard – an overloaded GIF might gently push your emails right into the spam folder.

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Example 3: Animated Banner

Animated banner email signature idea

Another generic name, because that’s precisely what the design is focused on. An animated banner is the star of this signature. A relatively simple animation works brilliantly to catch attention, but it’s your job to determine your animated banner’s content. Focus on your best offers or unique selling points and add a link to the right landing page.

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Example 4: Animated Logo

Animated logo email signature

This email signature template has the most generic name imaginable – and for a good reason. It includes one of the most obvious animations you could come up with! Don’t underestimate it, though – simple animations are nothing to sneeze at. They still catch attention without overwhelming your conversations with too much movement.

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Example 5: Beating Heart

Beating Heart animated gif email signature

The Beating Heart isn’t reserved for Valentine’s Day only. This simple animation can be used for all kinds of CSR campaigns or whenever you want to show in your message that you care.

Use this template to create your own animated email signature

How do animated email signatures work?

In short, animated email signatures are not that different from standard professional signatures. The only thing that changes is the animated part. So, instead of a static banner or logo, you use an animated GIF or an animated PNG (APNG). An MP4 or other video file formats are out of the question, because embedding such content in emails is a big no-no. Email apps just aren’t built for that.

Keep in mind, this article is focused on showing you good, reliable animated email signature examples. Would you like to learn more about how animated email signatures work, which email apps support them and generally see animated email signatures for all their pros and cons? Check out our definitive guide to animated GIFs in email signatures. While longish, it’s a good read – I highly recommend it!

How to create an animated GIF?

There are many tools that can help you create an animated GIF. One of the easiest is Canva. In fact, all the examples from this article were created using Canva.

Canva’s guide on how to create an animated GIF

Want to use our Canva project to kick-start your design process? Let us know in the comments!

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Animated GIFs (and PNGs) in email signatures – the complete guide

See our designs on Pinterest. Same designs, different place!

Cute email signatures for Easter and spring

Cute Easter email signature examples

Easter and spring are the perfect time for some cute email signatures. If you want fluffy bunnies and pretty flowers to take over your email signature block, the time to act is now. All the cute email signature examples below are available for free in our email signature generator, so you can get your own spring email signature in no time.

Cute Easter email signature examples

Get ready for some Easter & spring cuteness overload. 🐣

Fresh Spring

Fresh Spring - cute Easter email signature idea

Fresh Spring works great if you want to promote your best spring offers with every email you send.

Want to use it outside of spring season? Simply replace the banner with your own. Here are some email signature banners we’ve prepared for you, along with some instructions on how to edit them in Canva and add them to your email signature.

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Great Easter Sale

Great Easter Sale - free email signature template

It’s springtime, step outside, take your fresh photo and use it in this email signature template. Great Easter Sale combines the Easter vibe with a traditional two-column layout. Use it to promote your time-limited offers!

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Pretty In Pastels

Pretty In Pastels - spring-themed email signature

This pretty email signature example lets you include all your contact details and branding. The banner is perfect for Easter, but you can freely replace it with your own or remove it, to make the signature more compact.

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Blooming Sale

Blooming Sale - cute email signature for spring

Blooming Sale is a modern email signature template designed to help build your personal brand. Include a professional headshot in the middle and link to your social media profiles to easily grow your network.

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Evergreen Easter

Evergreen Easter - email signature design with easter eggs

Cute email signatures are tricky. On one hand, they should catch attention and make your recipients smile. On the other, they should remain functional and professional. Evergreen Easter is a compact signature with some Easter eggs included. It strikes the perfect balance.

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More Easter email signature ideas

Want to change your email signature for Easter but none of those examples work for you? Don’t worry, there’s more where these came from.

Get even more Easter & spring email signature ideas

Cute email signatures for every occasion

For a complete list of our cute email signature ideas, visit the free email signature generator. Don’t worry, our email signature ideas are all professional. The cuteness factor differs from template to template, but we’re sure you’ll find something that’s just right for you.

Why refresh your email signature?

If you’re wondering if changing your email signature for Easter is a good idea, here are some pros and cons:

Pros

  • Changing your email signature now and then proves you’re active and engaged.
  • After a while, your email signature might become almost invisible to your regular recipients – they get used to it. A quick email signature refresh brings it back into focus.
  • It’s a great opportunity to boost some time-limited promotional offers.
  • Spring is the traditional time for change and growth – the whole world wakes up from the winter slumber, ready for this year’s challenges and opportunities. Email signature is no exception.

Cons

Microsoft Teams deep links in email signatures

[Update]: This blog post was updated on November 19, 2024 to include information about new deep link types.

Are you using Microsoft Teams? Advertised as “the ultimate messaging app for your organization”, in most cases it allows employees to communicate and collaborate with high efficiency. If you are using it as a primary means of communication, it is vital to direct your co-workers to this channel. So, is there an easy and efficient method to link to Teams? There is! The secret is to use the so-called deep links.

Microsoft Teams deep links in email signatures
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Minimalist Halloween email signature inspirations

Top Halloween 2024 email signature examples

See the top Halloween email signature inspirations for 2024! This year, minimalist design is trending like never before, so we’ve prepared simple yet stylish email signature inspirations for Halloween. Take a look at spooky signature designs and start putting Halloween decorations to your emails. With our signature generator, you’ll find your emails hard to be ghosted.

Top email signature examples

We’ve summoned our best graphic designers to brew some tasty email signature designs for Halloween. Clicking on any of the designs opens a portal to their shelf in our signature library. From there, you can get straight to our free email signature generator to make your own signature.

Halloween 2024 - Grim design email signature template

Grim Design – there’s no better inspiration for Halloween personal email signatures.

Spider's web - the 2024 Halloween email signature idea

Spider’s Web – a Halloween-themed email signature that can’t wait to crawl into your recipients’ mailboxes (and hearts).

Ghastly branding - email signature design for halloween

Ghastly Branding – this Halloween email signature example puts “go” into ghosts.

Pumpkin social media - unique Halloween signature design

Pumpkin (Social) Media is a perfect way to gather a crowd on your social media covenants.

Compact pumpkin - email signature for Halloween

Compact Pumpkin combines minimalist design with Halloween spirit.

If you think that’s all we have to offer, think again. We’ve dusted off the cobwebs from the popular Halloween email signatures from the past.

See the designs that have lurked in the shadows for years

How to summon your own Halloween email signature?

The recipe for your Halloween email signature is dead-simple.

  1. Go to our free email signature generator.
  2. Pick the design you like the best or scares you the most.
  3. Add a pinch of your personal touch – change the default values to your own. Link to ye olde website.
  4. Summon the signature into your email client.
  5. Whenever in doubt, follow the steps from the user’s grimoire – it predicts the questions you might have and breaks down each step of the email signature summoning formula.
  6. As a last resort, use the contact form to contact the benevolent spirits behind the veil of mail-signatures.com. They will be happy to cite the right passage from the user’s grimoire or point you to one of our helpful scriptures.

You can do it. Even a zombie could do it.

And if you’re an HTML wizard, all of the Halloween signature templates can also be downloaded. Whatever you do, remember to follow the email signature etiquette, otherwise you might be in for a trick, instead of a treat.

The best part – the generator and designs downloaded from the signature library are completely free to use for your email signature needs. You don’t even have to sell us your soul.

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