The homepage of french email developer Rémi Parmentier.
In 2022, I offered my help to redesign one of my favorite newsletter: Switch Weekly , curated by Chris Brandrick . As a Nintendo fan, I figured this was perhaps the closest I could ever get to work on a Nintendo related newsletter. This was also a great opportunity to try and experiment new things without a dreadly deadline. I wanted to add little sparks of fun throughout the newsletter. And I…
It’s my pleasure to announce the upcoming launch of my online course site on HTML emails coding. It’s called Tiny Email Course. And it will be, as the name suggests, small courses on very specific email coding topics. The first course will release in June September When It’s Done . 🤞 I’ve been willing to launch an email course for so many years. But it felt huge and daunting. Email development is…
This week, I got bit pretty hard by a bug I somehow managed to completely avoid until now. This bug involves three ingredients: the Samsung Email app on Android, its Auto-fit feature, and an Outlook account. Here’s everything I learnt about this. It all started on a friday afternoon as I received an email from a client I’ve been working with in the past few months. Apparently, the fluid/hybrid…
I did my first live stream on Twitch! This is something I’ve had in mind for such a long time. But then I’d think how I needed to make everything perfect, have a perfect camera, a perfect setup, some perfect content and… Oh, screw it, I’ll do it live . So here it is, my first ever live stream on Twitch with a challenge: Can I make a 500 KB HTML email smaller in just one hour? I guess there’s only…
Lynn Fisher’s 2019 homepage responsive illustration has to be one of my favorite web design example of the past few years. It is a series a self portraits nested in each others, only showing when playing with the responsiveness of the page. I find it to be a perfect example of how design and code can work together to produce something original and meaningful. Screenshot from Lynn Fisher’s 2019…
Since its debut in october 2019, Gmail’s dark mode has been causing a lot of headaches . It has improved and standardized over time, but there are still glaring differences between Gmail’s dark mode in iOS versus Android. One of the most inconvenient problem in iOS in particular is that Gmail insists on changing any light text color to a dark text color. So an already dark email with white text on…
One thing I love about Outlook.com’s dark mode is the button to toggle between dark mode and light mode for a message. A simple and handy option to quickly change the look of an email. (And I’m excited that a similar button is coming to Firefox DevTools soon .) Outlook.com’s dark mode button with the moon and sun icon. One thing I hate about this, though, is that if you carefully coded a dark mode…
I recently got to do some research around VML background images. And here’s what I learnt about simulating background CSS properties like background-repeat , background-size and background-position in VML. But first, a bit of background ( ha ) about the basics of VML and background images. Basics VML is supported in The Outlooks on Windows using Word’s rendering engine (from 2007 to 2019). In…
There is no such thing as a “web safe font”. There, I said it. I’ve seen so many posts asking for safe fonts to use in HTML emails, usually answered with a reduced list of fonts available on Windows. So let me explain why safe fonts is a fallacious concept and how much more there can be to fonts in HTML emails than Arial and Times . Fonts in an HTML email can come from four different sources :…
A year ago, Can I email was launched . Today, I am pleased to announce that my team at Tilt Studio is launching Email Platform Status . Inspired by Chrome Platform Status , Email Platform Status tells you what HTML and CSS properties email developers use. We use Really Good Emails ’ incredible emails collection to parse the code and gather the data. The result is a first of its kind look into how…