Do you prefer plain or fancy work email signatures?

[scottie]

It's plain all the way for me. I just can't bring myself to use different fonts, company logos, references to social media, etc.

[Katy Lied]

We have to do it the fancy way. It's a branding thing. Also, we are only allowed to use a certain font on company docs etc. Also, we have templates for most any kind of company correspondence that we have to use-- from powerpoint presentations to Fax coversheets to Letterhead. Again, a branding requirement.

[TripletDaddy]

i have a plain signature but when I see company logos or contact info in an email I dont consider that fancy. Also, different fonts arent fancy, just annoying and poor form. Anyone that uses wallpaper in their email is a dunce or an admin.

The building manager here uses animations in her email sig depending on the current holiday. It is really awful...exploding fireworks, ants marching around the perimeter of her text, confetti flying.... I'm surprised her boss allows it as it looks like something an 8th grade girl might send out to her friends.

[Pelado]

i have a plain signature but when I see company logos or contact info in an email I dont consider that fancy. Also, different fonts arent fancy, just annoying and poor form. Anyone that uses wallpaper in their email is a dunce or an admin or both.

The building manager here uses animations in her email sig depending on the current holiday. It is really awful...exploding fireworks, ants marching around the perimeter of her text, confetti flying.... I'm surprised her boss allows it as it looks like something an 8th grade girl might send out to her friends.

fify

My boss makes me include the company logo on my outgoing emails.

[scottie]

i have a plain signature but when I see company logos or contact info in an email I dont consider that fancy. Also, different fonts arent fancy, just annoying and poor form. Anyone that uses wallpaper in their email is a dunce or an admin.

The building manager here uses animations in her email sig depending on the current holiday. It is really awful...exploding fireworks, ants marching around the perimeter of her text, confetti flying.... I'm surprised her boss allows it as it looks like something an 8th grade girl might send out to her friends.

Some fancy fonts:

http://www.fontriver.com/fancy/

http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=112

http://www.fontspace.com/category/fancy

[Donuthole]

This discussion of signatures reminds me of a injury case I handled right after I passed the bar. The amount in controversy was less than 50k, so it was automatically moved into non-binding arbitration. Our assigned arbitrator was some solo practitioner who was absolutely, undeniably infatuated with his signature (i.e. his real sign-my-name-with-a-pen signature). He was so infatuated with it that it was his firm's entire logo, and the top 1/3 of the page on his letterhead was this massive logo of his signed name. When he signed his letters, the signature was Hancockian in size, and always done in silver s harpie. Once I measured his actual signature at the end of a letter, and the first, middle, and last initials in the signature were just shy of 2 inches tall.

I admit, it was a decent looking signature, but I remember wondering how many hours this guy had probably spent crafting this signature, and chuckling to myself about his own non-tormented decision process of making it his firm's logo. I wish I could remember his name to look up his web page. I remember his signature prominently featured the letter "z" as part of his last name (but it wasn't the first letter of his last name--it was a part of his last name like Danzig or Jazmin).

Anyway, the dude ended up being a bit of a weirdo, and, unlike most assigned arbitrators who only send out letters when absolutely necessary, the guy would regularly send out lengthy form letters to both parties reminding them of certain parameters of the non-binding arb process. The letters were sent on paper featuring--you guessed it--his letterhead signature and always concluded with his humongous signature in silver sharpie. I never got to see him in action, as we settled the case before the arbitration hearing.

[old_gregg]

you guys are lame. my signature is in 16pt comic sans and features gifs hosted on my angelfire website, an inspirational quote inserted by a macro that randomly chooses from a table, and a lengthy circular 230 notice.

[Donuthole]

you guys are lame. my signature is in 16pt comic sans and features gifs hosted on my angelfire website, an inspirational quote inserted by a macro that randomly chooses from a table, and a lengthy circular 230 notice.

No link to your Hot or Not picture?

[Jeff Lebowski]

WTH? Why no option for "No signature"?

[Green Monstah]

It depends. I'm fine with a signature with company-designated font/color, but the people who use cursive-style font for their name or who have cheesy quotes drive me nuts. Our facilities manager's sig line says, "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."

[Blueintheface]

Our company just changed the required signature. All lower case. Looks odd to me.

[old_gregg]

Our company just changed the required signature. All lower case. Looks odd to me.

[Blueintheface]

Knew you'd like that.

[CJF]

WTH? Why no option for "No signature"?

Because no signature on an original business email is minor league. I hate it when I need to call someone based on the email they sent and they don't have a signature. It is worse when the signature doesn't include a phone number.

Our company has a template. I like the uniformity but don't love our template. It includes our Twitter account I think. I've never viewed our Twitter page. Stupid.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I sign my emails with my first name, if I communicate with someone more than once a week just the first letter of my name. I mock my managers that have signatures.