Email signature faux pa?

I'm the kind of guy that prefers to receive plain text emails. I know, sounds odd right? You'd expect a creative-minded person to want to receive the all frills version. I'm more into getting to the meat of the email, and don't care to wait for the cute little images and backgrounds to load.

It's been a general email faux pa to use images (be it logos or that cute little animated bunny you're so crazy about) in signatures. The problem with email is that all clients render the email differently. It might look neat on your end, but what does the recipient see? Usually a mess.

As you can see, my plain text email signature is very clean. I like my clients to be able to get the info they need, and in an uncluttered, very clean way. This is not to say that I will not design someone an email signature with logos. It's very possible to get away with a little bit of customization, but just don't go crazy.

Another tip is to not attach the images that you use within your signature to the email. This is tacky. Make sure these images are posted on a web server, and you modify the signature code to point to these locations. This will speed up the download time, and increase your recipient's readability of the email. So have fun. Just don't go crazy.

This has been today's clarified butter.