Yes, it’s that time of year. Almost everyone is getting ready for the holidays. Elves make their way to shelves, reindeer enter the spotlight and snowmen just stay frosty. Decorations find their way to almost every nook and cranny of homes and companies alike. Emails are no exception – it’s a great time to refresh your company email signature design. And if you want to do it in style, animated Christmas email signatures are the way to go. Check out our holiday-themed signature examples and get inspired.
Best Christmas email signature examples
We’ve prepared some Christmas email signature ideas for you. See our examples to get inspired and start crafting your animated email signature right away. All these designs are available in our free email signature generator, so changing your email signature should be easier than decorating a Christmas tree.
Each of the designs below includes an animated banner designed in Canva. You can use our project to create your own email signature banner. For example, you can:
- change the animation however you like,
- add your logo or introduce colors that better match your brand,
- add a custom CTA,
- add your own holiday wishes.
How to edit our Canva-made email signature banners?
Let It Snow – an animated holiday beauty
Add a “Merry Christmas” banner with snow falling from the sky and sparkling stars in the distance to immediately bring warmth and a sense of safety to mind:
You can easily replace “Merry Christmas” on the banner with “Happy Holidays” or another festive greeting by using another design (also available in this Canva project):
Feel free to add a custom CTA and a link to your Christmas campaign.
Edit the signature banner in Canva
Animated Christmas – attention-grabbing but classy
Animated email signatures are perfect for catching attention. Even a slight animated element works wonders, especially when you refresh a design everyone has gotten used to. So, if you want your email signatures to be noticed but don’t want them to be to flashy, Animated Christmas is for you.
Want to change something on the banner? Use our free Christmas banner Canva design to do that in just a few minutes! There are a few other great designs in the project as well. Just look at them go:
Need more inspirations?
Did you think that was it? That’s only the tip of a snowman’s nose!
Check out our library of Christmas-themed signature ideas. A little bird tweeted us (because it couldn’t have X-ed us) that snowflake-shaped social media icons are one of the all-time favorites.
How do animated banners work?
Email signatures are peculiar. They’re built on HTML, but not the kind that allows you to do virtually anything. That’s why all non-standard elements need to follow certain rules if you want your email signatures to work across all email apps.
That’s why, if you want an animated signature (holiday-themed or not), you’re forced to use GIFs. They’re supported in almost all popular email apps, except for some old-school ones like Outlook 2016. And yes, people still use it.
If a certain email app doesn’t support animations, it will show the first frame of the GIF. That’s why we made sure the first frames of our Christmas email signature GIFs look great even as static images. If you decide to create your own animations, it’s better to stray from fade-in effects that start with an empty background. While they might look nice, there’s a risk they will not appear as you intended in some cases.
More on animated gifs in email signatures
Be careful!
These signature designs come with a high risk of spreading joy in the workplace. Before you use them, read the following information and notify your brand manager or supervisor.
There are some things you should keep in mind when using animated email signatures. Animated GIFs are quite heavy. If you’re using our free email signatures generator, the GIFs are hotlinked or hosted, which doesn’t increase the email’s size. Still, after your recipients open the email, the banner’s loading time might be noticeable. If you make some changes on your own and embed those banners into your email signature, you’ll notice that your mailbox size grows faster than usual.
Linked vs embedded images in email signature – what’s the deal?
There’s another thing. While an animated banner isn’t malicious and is usually sent with good intentions in mind, there are scenarios when it might slightly increase your chances of getting caught by spam filters.
Keep in mind that it’s not the banner per se that puts spam filters on guard. Filters rate emails based on a variety of factors, such as certain keywords in the email body, image-to-text ratio and, above all, the links included in the message.
