Fancy Email Fonts/colors and backgrounds  

You bring up a valid point and also reminded me of ANOTHER point ... not every person has their email set to HTML, so sometimes the emails can come through real screwy and messed up as the email program tries to figure out all the strange backgounds and things. I was even annoyed when we first got outlook here and the default "reply" color as a lightish blue. I changed my default "reply" color to black and have helped others do the same, but many people have choosen to change it to ANOTHER color or just don't know how to change it.

Well I recieve plenty of emails with different fonts, colors and backgrounds which is why I started this. That picture above is from a real email I received. It's hard to take people seriously when they send their work emails like that, b/c you wonder how important the email really is! I'll definitely have fun with "happy holidays" and emails like that, but I'm starting to get tired of these fancy fonts and things on every day work emails.

If that image is meant for a work email, then it must be reported to your or his/her boss immediately. Reason behind is that there must be protocols in your office which must be followed by everyone. It must be not altered by anyone, no matter how high his/her post it!

Trouble is, there are no protocols for emails and I'm in no position to make one. It's one of those little things that no one says anything about but it annoys me for sure. I did hear IT tell me that they were going to start disallowing images in signatures, but whenever I hear stuff like that it is MONTHS before it's even brought up again. We'll see!

I have responded to people before and told them if something was really too hard to read. For example, some people use fonts that are not widely availabe, so the email came to me with just boxes! I had to tell them I couldn't read it. I know I can change the font of Their email, but I shouldn't have to. So I tell them "i can't read your email, it's just showing boxes" so they learn not to use that font.

Anyway, with the economy the way it is, our companies got bigger fish to fry than email backgrounds so I doubt it's anywhere near their list of priorities :)

I'm used to it because so many people seem to do it now, but that doesn't mean I have to like it :) As I said above, it makes the email seem less important or more casual, even when the person is asking about a serious issue they need resolved.

I'll allow changing the default Times New Roman font :) But mostly b/c I hate Times New Roman, it's ugly! However, the choices have to be something basic like Arial, Verdana, or outlook uses Calibri by default. As long as the font is simple, straight lines, I'm happy. But when I get handwriting or silly text, I start to wonder about the person who sent it... what were they thinking?

Well the background/fonts DO matter much if the person you are sendng it to can't really read it. It's fine if you are just doing it for certain people or friends, but for every email to have a background, I think that gets out of hand.

It's different if it's a business related design, but in my case everyone is just doing "fun" designs and fonts. It's not bringing business to us, we work together already. Their emails are usually requests or issues I need to fix, and if it comes through with 10 attachments (b/c of the fancy images they used) or a background that makes it hard to read, I'm annoyed :(