The holiday season is just around the corner, bringing with it the charm of traditional Christmas and New Year's greetings!
To spark your inspiration (and sprinkle a little extra holiday cheer), we've created 16 free examples of Christmas email signatures, packed with seasonal magic.
Ready to dive in?
This visual adopts a playful, minimalist style, blending simple geometric shapes (triangles, circles) with a warm pastel palette (yellow, green, coral). Stylized fir trees, symmetry, and modern typography create a festive, balanced composition—ideal for New Year's greetings!
This holiday banner combines minimalism with a playful charm, featuring floating typographic elements and a vibrant palette of contrasting colors like purple and orange. The letters are integrated into a dynamic composition and evoke a festive garland, while stylized illustrations add a cheerful, modern touch.
Celebrating the magic of Christmas symbols, this “best wishes” garland embraces a delightful “handmade” aesthetic that feels warm and inviting.
This banner showcases a minimalist, geometric aesthetic, drawing inspiration from mid-century modern and flat design trends.
Simple shapes—triangles, circles, and rectangles—are arranged to evoke fir trees patterns and other festive elements, all in a reduced, harmonious color palette (orange, dark green, blue).
The clean, bold sans-serif typography enhances the straightforward, modern vibe, while the precise spacing and symmetrical layout provide a sense of balance and clarity.
This banner can be used as an animated GIF or in image format. Elegant and festive, it combines flowing handwritten typography with bright accents. The contrast between the vivid purple and the starry gold accents evokes a refined, cheerful mood, ideal for end-of-year greetings.
The overall effect is festive yet refined.
For those who miss a bygone era, this 60s-70s-inspired banner is perfect for adding a little pizzazz to your good wishes. With bright, bold colors like fuchsia pink and fir green, the result is both pop and retro.
This banner features a clean and festive graphic style inspired by Scandinavian design. The simple geometric shapes and warm colors (fir green, red, and gold) evoke the spirit of the festive season. The mustard background adds a contemporary touch, while decorative elements such as stars, fir trees, and baubles aim to create a warm, optimistic atmosphere.
Inspired by the vibrant '70s, this banner features warm, contrasting colors—orange, yellow, and fir green—that create a unique vintage aesthetic. The rounded fonts (Genty, Asset) bring us back to the distinctive advertising world of those years.
With its fine, contrasting capital typography set against a pastel pink background, this banner exudes a blend of modernity and elegance. Green branch illustrations add a festive, botanical charm, while subtle drop shadows on the letters create a delicate depth effect.
The result is a chic and minimalist design, ideal for refined and uncluttered holiday greetings.
A variation of banner #4, this design introduces a more “nocturnal” and glamorous feel with a sleek black background and neon-colored typography. Bright accents are preserved, adding vibrancy, while the design comes to life when exported as an animated GIF, perfect for dynamic and eye-catching holiday greetings.
With its simple geometric shapes, this banner is both retro and playful. The typography (ITC Magnifico, League Gothic) reinforces the nostalgic aesthetic with its rounded, volumetric, and simple style.
Hearts, pennants, and pastel hues are all yours!
This banner embraces an elegant, natural style with a rich fir-green background, beautifully contrasted by powder pink illustrations of foliage and berries. The central text, simple yet refined, is the ideal place to put forward an inspiring and professional message.
The ensemble evokes both the serenity of the holidays and a forward-looking ambition, ideal for Christmas corporate emails.
Reminiscent of late-night Christmas lights or the sparkle of champagne glasses, this bubble-backed banner captures the festive essence of the season.
To ensure the “Happy Holidays” message stands out, the rounded Klose Slab font is rendered in high-contrast white, creating a striking and celebratory visual.
With this design, we’re breaking the traditional holiday rules!
Forget the usual Christmas tree-inspired hues—this banner goes for pure contrast. The focus is on the bold Klose Slab typeface, whose oversized, impressive style grabs attention instantly.
Dynamic star patterns add a modern, energetic flair, making this banner both simple and striking. Perfect for those who want to stand out this festive season.
Both traditional and warm, this banner incorporates many of the classic iconographic elements of the holiday season. Fir, foliage, red berries, snowflakes and presents. It's hard to go wrong with the theme of your message.
It's an excellent banner for writing your most inspired wishes.
This design features sharp tree shapes paired with snowflakes, evoking a cheerful, modern winter forest. The bold, slightly retro TAN Ashford typography adds festive energy, making it the perfect choice to welcome the New Year with style and enthusiasm.
A cheerful “Happy Holidays” set against a background inspired by the classic stripes of gift-wrapping paper. After all, what if the best gift this season was the warm greetings you shared with your customers and colleagues?
Communicating via email signatures may seem insignificant compared with certain media operations. Yet the results can be impressive. Unlike “classic” channels, people don't perceive a communication banner slid under your email signatures as intrusive.
For a company with 500 employees, this translates into 20,000 emails sent per day—adding up to 400,000 emails over 20 working days. That’s a tremendous opportunity to reach a broad and diverse audience, including customers, prospects, employees, and service providers.
With this in mind, the email signature can help you stand out from the competition. It bypasses the winter media frenzy in a subtle, non-intrusive way, while grabbing the attention of your recipients.
Don't believe us? Let's do a test!
On one side you have an example of an email with a “classic” signature, and on the other a “festive” signature.
Which one caught your eye?
The festive version, without a doubt.
Your eyes were naturally drawn to it. The “classic” version without the banner has a “smoother” feel and blends in better with the design of the email. It attracts less attention.
If something catches your eye, you'll find it easier to remember. This will also be the case for your clients, prospects or service providers. Why should they? Because it aroused emotion. If you want to engage your audience, incorporating a festive signature is a great way to do it.
By attracting your recipients' attention with a festive signature, you create an initial emotional bond: a feeling of sympathy, surprise, or curiosity.
When a person is emotionally linked to a brand, their perception of it changes. They are more receptive to communications. They become more receptive to its communications, viewing the company in a more favorable light. That’s why using your email signatures as a communication channel during the holidays is not only appropriate but highly effective.
In other words, your brand becomes more easily recognizable. This increased visibility makes it easier to engage your audience and build stronger connections.
Want to create your own banners to integrate into your email signatures? Here’s how!
With these elements in place, you’re ready to start creating your banners!
Before diving into the design process, take the time to write your message separately—in a document or a notepad.
This approach helps you focus solely on the content, ensuring you stay true to your initial objective without being influenced by design elements.
When crafting your message, always keep your target audience and objective in mind. After all, it’s them you’re addressing.
To make a strong visual impact, your message should occupy the majority of the banner—it’s the first thing recipients notice when they reach the end of an email. For an easier and more effective writing process, consider using the AIDA method (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) to structure your message.
The CTA, or Call to Action, is the clickable element of the signature, usually represented in the form of a button. It's an effective way of making your banner interactive, since the introduction of a CTA implies that the banner is clickable.
Examples of CTAs:
It must echo your message and be adapted to your target.
Adding a link to your CTA is essential—without it, the click will lead nowhere.
The link must echo your message and meet your objective.
N’ajoutez pas un lien vers la page d’accueil de votre site. Le lien doit parfaire l’expérience de vos clients ou vos collaborateurs, et donc, rediriger vers une page pertinente.
Once your message, CTA, and link are defined, you can move on to designing your banner. At this stage, you can focus entirely on the visual aspects without losing sight of your target or goals.
The email banner format should not exceed 600 px in width and 180 px in height, to fit the format of an email.
In our experience, we recommend importing a .JPEG or .PNG image for optimum quality.
Don't neglect the banner format. This is important to ensure the deliverability of your emails and the display of your signatures.
Your banner should seamlessly reflect your company’s graphic charter—it’s not meant to look like a billboard or a Christmas tree.
Stay true to your company’s DNA by using brand colors and keeping gimmicks to a minimum.
For an easy way to design email signatures, you can use Canva’s signature designer. Alternatively, Adobe Suite works great if you have basic design skills.
We also recommend adding an image that relates to your message. This will avoid any risk of inconsistency or confusion. In the case of your holiday email signature, avoid overloading your banner and prefer sobriety.
You can find royalty-free images on: freepik, pixabay or pexels.
If you'd like a GIF email signature for Christmas or the New Year, that's also possible. Once again, we recommend using Canva. It's a very intuitive tool to help you animate your text or image!
Yes, with the 'Campaigns' offer, it is possible to track the number of clicks on the email signatures of all your employees in the 'Statistics' area of the platform.
You can then access a detailed or global view of the number of clicks on the email signatures of each employee. You can use the search option to target a specific signature or a given period. Finally, you have the possibility to export all statistics to an Excel document.
If you launch campaigns with banners inserted in your email signatures, you can also access their performance via this same space.
With Letsignit, you can easily add social network icons in your collaborators' email signatures and link to your company pages. Also, our "attributes" feature allows you to manage personalized URLs for each of your collaborators such as their individual LinkedIn profile.
And that's not all: you can add links to an appointment-setting application, allow your customers to leave reviews easily, and integrate our 'Chat on Teams' widget to let anyone start a discussion via Microsoft Teams chat.
It’s up to you! As an administrator of the Letsignit platform, you choose whether or not to grant modification rights to your employees. These permissions are managed on an attribute-by-attribute basis, which means that you can decide to allow the employee to change their phone number, but not the address of your premises, for example.
This feature applies to all attributes in your directory, including custom attributes created on Letsignit. When your employees change one or more attributes, your directory is obviously not affected.
It often happens that employees make their email signature their own: custom format, bad fonts, colors inconsistent with the brand standards... all of this has an impact on your brand!
A consistent visual identity is considered authentic and outperforms a perceived weak one by 20%. And, your customers are 2.4 times more likely to buy your products.
With Letsignit, take back control over your brand identity by standardizing all your email signatures. Our tool has many features that allow you to customize your signatures by department, by audience or by subsidiary. Not to mention the possibility of carrying out campaigns within your email signatures thanks to our Campaign offer.
What is the user experience like for our employees?
In both cases:
In short, they have autonomy in their email signature, but you keep control on the field, signatures, and banners they can edit or use.
With our "multi-signature" feature, your employees can benefit from multiple email signatures. No technical manipulation is required. Thanks to our Add-in for Outlook or the desktop app, they can change their email signatures as they wish with just a few clicks.
Regarding the creation of email signatures, you can make several variations such as:
Everything has been thought of to go further in the personalization process based on the recipient of your emails.
If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.
As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:
As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.
If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.
As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:
As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.
With a Christmas banner added to your email signature, of course! You were still not sure at this point?
Feel free to download our email signature templates to start looking Christmassy!
Reason no. 1: The email signature bypasses the media hubbub.
Unlike “classic” channels, no one expects to see a communication banner under your email signatures. It's the only channel on which you can communicate without the risk of being overlooked.
Reason n°2: You attract attention.
Unlike a “classic” email signature, this festive version attracts your recipient's attention. If something catches your eye, you'll find it easier to remember. The same goes for your recipient.
Reason n°3: You create an emotional connection with your recipients.
By attracting your recipients' attention with a festive signature, you create an initial emotional bond: a feeling of sympathy, surprise, or curiosity. When a person is emotionally linked to a brand, they have a different perception of you. They are more receptive to communications. Their perception of your company will be different.
1. Prerequisite: a professional email signature: It's vital that all the identification and contact details are filled in. Otherwise, you'll be hard to identify and won't be able to create a bond with your contact.
2. Prepare your banner mail campaign: Any promotional operation requires preparation. Without laying the foundations, you won't be able to create a successful campaign. To do this: define your target, the objective of your banner, your theme (what you're promoting), the duration of distribution, and the service that will promote the banner.
3. Create your banner:
Step 1: Write your banner's message. Your message is the focal point of your campaign. Keep your target and objective in mind.
Step 2: Define a CTA, the clickable element of the signature.
Step 3: Provide a link behind your CTA.
Step 4: Define the mail banner format in your visual creation tool. Your banner mail should be no more than 600px wide and 180px high.
Step 5: Design. Add the above elements and format them according to the colors of your graphic charter.
Step 6: Add an image related to your message. Avoid overloading your banner. Keep it simple.
Creating a Christmas-themed email signature in Outlook using tools like Letsignit involves a few simple steps:
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