Holiday email signature maker
Add a holiday banner under your email signature. Pick one of seven classic winter and autumn paintings, type a greeting such as Happy holidays, Merry Christmas or Happy Thanksgiving, and download a banner sized for Gmail and Outlook, 360 by 100 pixels. Add it in late November and take it down after New Year's Day.
Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser, so nothing you add is uploaded.
Painting
Optional: who it is from, or when you are away.
Lettering
Words
Ink
Size of the file
360 x 100 pixels, exactly the size it shows. Right for adding it straight into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail, so it goes in at the right size.
Claude Monet. Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect), 1890 to 1891. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain.
Alt text: Happy holidaysAdd it to the image, so the greeting reads even with images turned off.
Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year email signatures
Seven banners, from late November to the first week of January. Each is a classic painting you can put your own words on.
| Banner | Painting | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| Happy holidays | Claude Monet, Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect) | Everyone, all of December |
| Merry Christmas | George Wesley Bellows, Love of Winter | People you know celebrate Christmas |
| Season’s greetings | Camille Pissarro, Snow at Louveciennes | Clients and new contacts |
| Warm winter wishes | John Henry Twachtman, Icebound | A quiet, wintry note into January |
| Happy Thanksgiving | Sanford Robinson Gifford, Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills | The week of Thanksgiving |
| With thanks this season | Claude Monet, Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn) | Thanking clients in November |
| Happy New Year | Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect | The last days of December and early January |
For a Christmas email signature, Merry Christmas sits on Bellows’s skaters. For a Thanksgiving email signature, choose Happy Thanksgiving or With thanks, and for a New Year email signature, Happy New Year on Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, lit gold. Happy holidays and Season’s greetings suit the whole season, whoever you write to.
The paintings come from the Art Institute of Chicago, which publishes images of public domain works for anyone to use, and the tool credits each one under the banner. Broad areas of colour read well at banner size, so these are mostly landscapes and snow.
When to add a holiday email signature
Shortly before the day, and off again once you are back at work.
| Occasion | Add it | Take it down |
|---|---|---|
| Thanksgiving, November 26 | The Monday before | The Monday after |
| Christmas and Happy holidays | Early December | When you are back after New Year's Day |
| New Year | After Christmas | Around January 5 |
Gmail and Outlook both let you keep more than one signature, so you can save the holiday version beside your usual one and switch back with a click when the season ends. The guides show how to change your signature in Outlook and in Gmail.
Happy holidays email signature lines
If a banner is more than you want, one line under your name does the job. Copy one, or start from one.
For everyone
- Happy holidays from all of us at Northwind.
- Wishing you a restful holiday season.
- Season's greetings and warm wishes for the new year.
Christmas
- Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
- Wishing you a merry Christmas from the Northwind team.
Thanksgiving
- Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for a great year working together.
- Grateful for you this Thanksgiving.
New Year
- Happy New Year. Here's to a great year ahead.
- Best wishes for the new year.
Away over the holidays
- Our office is closed from December 24 to January 1. We'll reply when we're back.
- I'm away until January 5, with limited access to email.
Keep a holiday signature professional
Change only the banner; the rest of the signature stays as it is.
Use one banner, under your details, and keep your name, title and contact details as text so nothing important depends on an image loading. Keep it still: a moving GIF in every reply gets old fast, and Outlook for Windows up to 2016 doesn’t play the animation at all (Can I email).
If you write to people of many faiths or none, Happy holidays and Season’s greetings include everyone. Save Merry Christmas for people you know celebrate it.
For the logo or photo in the rest of your signature, the image size tool works the same way, in your browser.
The whole signature
Make the signature to go above it
Your banner sits under your name and details. esigna's free Editor makes that part: your name, title, contact details, photo or logo and social links, in a design that holds up in Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail. No account needed.
FAQ
Questions
What should a holiday email signature say?
Keep it to one short greeting and, if you like, who it is from: Happy holidays from all of us at Northwind, or Warm wishes for the new year. If you are away, add the dates on a second line, such as Back on January 5. Your usual name and contact details stay as they are.
When should I add a holiday signature, and when should I take it down?
A Thanksgiving banner suits the week of Thanksgiving, which falls on November 26 in 2026. A Christmas or Happy holidays banner suits most of December, and a New Year one the last days of December and the first week of January. Take it down once you are back at work after New Year's Day.
Happy holidays or Merry Christmas?
Happy holidays and Season's greetings include everyone, so they suit email to clients and people you don't know well. Merry Christmas is warmer with people you know celebrate it. Both are here, and you can write any greeting you like.
What size is the banner?
It shows at 360 by 100 pixels; 100 pixels high is the most Gmail's help gives for a signature image. Download the 1x file, exactly 360 by 100, to add it straight into Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail; Gmail shows an upload at the size of its file. The 2x file, 720 by 200, is sharper on phones, for a signature that sets the picture's size, such as one made in esigna's Editor.
Can I use these paintings?
Yes. They come from the Art Institute of Chicago, which publishes images of public domain works under Creative Commons Zero for any use, commercial included. The museum asks for a caption with the artist, title and date, which the tool shows under each banner.
Will it look right in dark mode?
Yes. The banner is a picture with its own background, so it looks the same on a light or a dark email page. The preview shows both.
Sources
The facts on this page about email apps come from these pages, read on October 13, 2026.