Email design is a special kind of hell. While the rest of the web has moved on to modern CSS, flexbox, and grid layouts, email clients are still stuck in the dark ages. You’re forced to use table-based layouts, inline CSS styles, and work around the limitations of Outlook (which still renders emails using the Word HTML engine from 2007). It’s enough to make you want to just send plain text and be done with it.
💬 Brett Tapsra
… tell me about it.
@JohnPhilpin HTML mail - the punishment for our sins, not to mention those who think they are really good at design. In most cases plain text is the best
@JohnPhilpin could be, but I find it difficult to read dark gray text on light grey background, or text sized 9, or font selections that are … interesting, or margin settings that make things really difficult to read … well, you get the idea. The problem for me is that these choices make my life more difficult/slow. And since I’m forced to use a mail client that doesn’t allow me to ignore these things, I’m getting a bit upset when I see these mails.
I’m not saying that well designed emails don’t exist, I’m saying that I see these horrible emails every day. I’m grateful that the majority of the people I get emails from either use plain text or some reasonable default setting
@jemostrom to be clear .. comment above is an amalgam of what you hear from people who have no idea how email works.