How to Create Dark-Mode Friendly Emails

Skill Level

Intermediate

Learning Track

Tech
Email Design

With the majority of mobile users preferring dark mode, it is now essential that marketers, designers, and developers have this in mind when creating their content. Adding in the consideration of accessibility, email content must be easy on the eyes while still complying with company brand guidelines.

In this session, we’re here to understand what dark mode is, why it’s important to us as email marketers, designers and developers, and how we can improve our emails to be more dark-mode friendly across email clients.

Topics covered

1. What is dark mode?

2. Why should you consider dark mode?

3. How can dark mode affect your branding?

4. How do different email clients treat dark mode?

5. How to improve your emails for dark mode?

About the Author

Ruwanthi
Somatilake
Senior Designer
WSO2

Ruwanthi is a writer and senior designer at WSO2. Her goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of users by helping organizations to improve their designs. Throughout her career, she’s improved email marketing performance statistics by analyzing user behavior and experimenting with email design. She’s introduced dark mode to company emails to give users a better experience and increased subscribers through code improvements.

Ruwanthi has 5+ years of industry experience, which includes design and develops emails, websites, analyze user behavior, and improve the design process based on user statistics.

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