The HTML Email Starter Kit

A toolkit for building elegant, widely supported HTML email.

Contents

• basic.html
  A starting point. No annotations or design; just the basics.

• basic-annotated.html
  An annotated version of basic.html, including references to source material.

• templates/transactional.html
  A simple transactional template. View CodePen demo

Support

Desktop Clients

• Apple Mail
• Outlook (Windows, Mac)
• Thunderbird

Web Clients

• Gmail
• Outlook.com
• AOL Mail
• Yahoo! Mail
• Office 365

Mobile/Tablet Clients

• Mail (iOS)
• Gmail (iOS, Android)
• Inbox (iOS)
• Yahoo (iOS)
• Outlook (iOS)

Author

I'm a designer and front-end developer primarily working on websites, but occasionally on HTML email. I designed this resource to make the latter a little bit easier. I'd be happy to converse about this project (or any number of things) over on Twitter.