I want to create a colourful signature in Mac Mail but I can't figure out how to use different fonts and colours within the same signature. All I have managed to do is change the default font for all my email messages. Could someone please explain where the font formatting controls are for signatures?
Formatting Text in Mail Signature
- Thread starter wickerman
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Multiple colours and fonts were something that folks did back in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, we now understand that this is very bad and amateurish design.
Having said that, the only reliable way to do what you want is to use HTML code, a sore point with email purists. Unless you have some very good reason for doing what you want to do, then I strongly recommend that you stay with a simple elegant signature.
Having said that, the only reliable way to do what you want is to use HTML code, a sore point with email purists. Unless you have some very good reason for doing what you want to do, then I strongly recommend that you stay with a simple elegant signature.
Meaning?...
(Presumably that I can't use a different font, size or colour to my basic message text. If so, how come other folks are able to send me emails with different formatting in the signature?)
When the message is from a business I think a specially formatted design looks professional... Like a letterhead.
(Presumably that I can't use a different font, size or colour to my basic message text. If so, how come other folks are able to send me emails with different formatting in the signature?)
When the message is from a business I think a specially formatted design looks professional... Like a letterhead.
earthsaver
Ben R.
Other people sending you email with fancying signatures are sending HTML email. You can create your own sig with HTML. The simple steps are:
1. Open the HTML signature in Safari and save it as a Web Archive.
2. Create a new signature in Mail and then quit Mail.
3. Navigate in the Finder to ~/Library/Mail/Signatures and locate the sig you just created by its modification date.
4. Copy the name of this file and paste it in place of the name of the Web Archive sig you saved from Safari.
5. Move the latter to the Signatures folder, replacing the former, now of the same name.
6. Reopen Mail and test your new signature.
There are other resources online about creating fancy signatures for Mail.
1. Open the HTML signature in Safari and save it as a Web Archive.
2. Create a new signature in Mail and then quit Mail.
3. Navigate in the Finder to ~/Library/Mail/Signatures and locate the sig you just created by its modification date.
4. Copy the name of this file and paste it in place of the name of the Web Archive sig you saved from Safari.
5. Move the latter to the Signatures folder, replacing the former, now of the same name.
6. Reopen Mail and test your new signature.
There are other resources online about creating fancy signatures for Mail.