Email signature

A compact signature that survives every mail client.

The signature is built to work in clients with hostile CSS support — Outlook included. The source is brand/email/signature.html.

Signature — one-line lockup, four lines maximum
projectious · work
Bernhard Gerlach
Cloud · Agile · Agentic AI
projectious.work

Construction rules

  • Table-based layout. Flexbox and grid do not survive Outlook.
  • Inline styles only. Most clients strip <style> blocks.
  • Web-safe font fallbacks. Brand fonts will not load in most clients — the stack must degrade to a system sans without breaking the layout.
  • The mark is a hosted PNG, not an SVG and not a data URI. Include alt text; many clients block images by default.
  • No background images. Use a solid bgcolor attribute.

Content

One line each: name, role, projectious.work, and a single contact method. The one-line lockup is used here — the signature is a horizontal context.

Do

Test in Outlook, Gmail web, and Apple Mail before shipping a change. Keep the signature under four lines.

Don't

Add social icon rows, legal disclaimers, quotations, or “please consider the environment” footers.