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Canva email signature templates vs esigna

Canva has over 2,500 email signature templates and lets you design every detail, and what you get is a picture: Canva’s own page says to save it as a PNG and insert it in Gmail as an image. esigna builds your signature from text, with your photo, logo and icons as pictures inside it, so people can copy your email address, tap your number and click each link.

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Compared on October 23, 2026, from each product’s own pages.

Choose Canva if

  • You want a free hand over every part of the layout, the fonts and the art.
  • Your logo, colors and fonts already live in Canva.
  • Your signature is mostly a picture: a banner, or a piece of your work.

Choose esigna if

  • People should be able to tap your phone number, copy your email address and click each link.
  • Some of the people you write to use classic Outlook for Windows, which can hide pictures linked from the web until they allow them.
  • You want a free design with no paid parts in it.

Side by side

Canva and esigna for an email signature, on October 23, 2026.
Canvaesigna
What you pasteOne picture, saved as a PNG or JPGText, with your photo, logo and icons as pictures
TemplatesOver 2,500 email signature templates29 free, plus 3 Pro Templates
DesigningAnything on the canvasA Template you change block by block: colors, font, sizes and order
LinksOne for the whole picture, at mostOne for each detail: phone, email, website, social icons, booking link
Copying your detailsNot possible, they’re part of the pictureSelect and copy any of them
When pictures are blockedNothing may show until the reader allows picturesYour name and details show, and the photo and logo wait
PriceFree, except premium elements, which need a license or a paid planFree. An optional Signature plan is $9 once (launch price until October 31, then $19).

Three esigna designs with some art in them

Folio, Gallery and Muse lean on type and pictures the way a Canva design does, and every detail in them is still text and links.

A picture, or text with pictures in it

Canva’s email signature page describes the result as your branding “in a single image”. It suggests saving the design as a PNG, which keeps logos sharper than a JPG, and adding it in Gmail’s signature settings with the image button.

The signature looks exactly as you designed it. Your email address in it can’t be copied, your phone number can’t be tapped on a phone, and most email apps let a picture carry one link at most, so your website and your profiles can’t each be clicked. A screen reader reads only the picture’s alt text.

When pictures don’t load

Microsoft’s help says classic Outlook for Windows is “configured by default to block automatic picture downloads from the Internet”, and that a reader can allow them for one message or add the sender to their Safe Senders. So when your signature is one picture linked from the web, classic Outlook for Windows can show nothing in its place until the reader allows it.

An esigna signature has pictures too, your photo, your logo and the icons, but your name, title and contact details are text, so they show either way.

Where Canva is the better choice

Canva gives you a free hand. If your logo, fonts and colors are already there, or your signature is really a banner or a sample of your work, it’s the quicker place to make it, and your team can work on the same design with you in real time.

You can also use both. Make a banner in Canva, download it as a PNG, and add it to your esigna signature as an image under your details, where your details stay text. Bulletin is a Template made for that.

Moving a Canva signature to esigna

  1. In Canva, download your logo as a PNG, and your photo if it’s only there.
  2. Open esigna’s free Editor and pick a Template close to your Canva design.
  3. Set your brand color and font, type your details and add your photo and logo.
  4. Copy it and paste it over the picture in your email app’s signature settings. The guides to changing it in Gmail and Outlook show where that is.

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Make a signature people can click

Pick a Template, add your details, your photo and your logo, and copy it into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail. Your phone, email, website and profiles each stay a link.

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FAQ

Questions

Can I make an email signature in Canva for free?

Yes. Canva has free email signature templates, and you can download your design as a PNG. A design with a premium element asks you to buy a license for it, upgrade or download a watermarked draft.

Are the links in a Canva email signature clickable?

Only as one link for the whole picture, at most. The signature is a single image, so the phone number, email address and website in it are part of the picture and can’t be clicked one by one.

Why doesn’t my Canva signature show in Outlook?

Classic Outlook for Windows blocks pictures linked from the internet by default, unless the reader allows them or has you in their Safe Senders, so a signature that is one picture can show nothing. A signature made of text, like esigna’s, still shows your name and details.

Can I use my Canva logo in esigna?

Yes. Download it from Canva as a PNG and add it to your esigna signature as your logo. The Editor sizes it for email.

Is esigna free?

Yes. Making and copying a signature is free without an account, with 29 free Templates. A free account saves two signatures. The Signature plan, $9 once (launch price until October 31, then $19), adds the Pro Templates, the holiday Seasons and up to 25 saved signatures.

Sources

The facts on this page come from these pages, read on October 23, 2026. Prices and plans change, so check them on each product’s site before you pay.

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