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The top 10 festive Christmas email signature templates [with editable downloads]
TL;DR
A Christmas email signature is your usual email signature plus a banner or a seasonal line. Pick the date it switches back before you send it.
Pick one of the 10 templates below and edit it in Canva with your own fonts, colors, and logo.
For a whole company, schedule the change in an email signature manager so it switches back on its own.
Why put Christmas in your email signature
Your email signature goes out with the emails you send in December, which makes it a ready place for a closing date or an offer.
Exclaimer customers see a 4% average click-through rate on email signature content, according to Exclaimer's blog post Maximizing marketing ROI with personalized email signatures, updated September 25, 2026. And in Exclaimer's 2023 US report The Power of Professionally Branded Emails, 43% of consumers said emails with a professionally branded email signature make them think more positively about the organization.
Looking for non-Christmas options?
Designs for Thanksgiving and New Year are in the guide to holiday email signature templates.
Christmas email signature templates
Click any image to open the template in Canva and swap in your logo, fonts, and colors.
1. Add a cheerful “Merry Christmas” banner
Start here when you have nothing to announce. A Merry Christmas banner is easy to keep on brand.
2. Promote a Christmas offer with a campaign banner
Use this one for a Christmas offer or an end-of-year sale. The campaign banner goes below your contact details, so the rest of the layout can stay as it is.
3. Rotate banners to carry several messages
Several festive banners take turns in this template, so one email signature can show a different message over the season. Exclaimer supports up to 15 rotating banner images per email signature on its Standard and Pro plans.
4. Share internal Christmas events
A party reminder has no place on emails to customers. An email signature that shows only on emails to colleagues keeps it internal.
"A banner on the bottom of an internal email is a gentle, consistent prompt that comes to you."
5. Add a Santa hat to your logo or headshot
Swap in a version of your logo or profile photo wearing a Santa hat. It's the lightest festive change here, because there's no banner or offer to maintain.
6. Point to a seasonal download
A Christmas-themed banner in this template sends recipients to a seasonal download. In Exclaimer, Campaigns (available on Standard and Pro plans) schedule banners and target them by recipient, sender, department, or region, so a download reaches only the audience it suits.
7. Use a winter design instead of Christmas
A snow or winter design looks festive without mentioning Christmas, so it's the safer pick when some of your recipients don't celebrate it.
8. Promote a Christmas event with ticket imagery
Ticket imagery signals an event at a glance, so use this one when the banner asks people to sign up for a Christmas event.
9. Use festive graphic accents
Pine needles, snow, holly, and stars frame the contact information, social media icons, headshot, and legal disclaimer in this template.
10. Show your social feeds
A social feed in an email signature displays your company's latest posts, so a seasonal post can appear without anyone editing the email signature. In Exclaimer, Social Feeds for LinkedIn and Facebook are a Pro plan feature.
For LinkedIn, Senior Product Manager Carly Papadopoulos says the feed pulls the three latest posts that have an image or a video. In her words, "text-only and celebration posts don't come through." Give your festive post a picture or a video.
Christmas email sign-off lines
A sign-off is the line above your name. Use one that tells the reader something.
"Our team is away from December 24 to January 2. For anything urgent, call (555) 555-0142."
"The last day for Christmas delivery orders is December 18."
"Thank you for your business this year, and best wishes for 2027."
"Merry Christmas from all of us at [company name]."
"Wishing you a happy holiday season." Use it when you write to people in several countries.
Tips for designing a Christmas email signature
1. Make the text large enough to read on a phone
Open the template on a phone, in the Outlook or Gmail app, before you send it. If you have to zoom, the font is too small. For the banner itself, Jasmine Hotham-Tunnadine, Exclaimer's Template Designer, recommends at least 600 pixels wide, and 320 to 450 pixels for smaller devices. This guide to mobile email signatures goes further.
2. Keep the text readable
Use dark text on a light background or light text on a dark one. Thin fonts and thin lines are hard to read on a screen. Dark mode can also change how a festive banner looks. Jasmine Hotham-Tunnadine, Exclaimer's Template Designer, notes that it can "make images harder to see, especially darker ones," and suggests a white background behind the image.
3. Stay inside your brand guidelines
Use your approved fonts, colors, and logo, and add one seasonal accent. If your guidelines don't cover festive designs, ask your brand team before you send. The guide to corporate branding in email signatures has more.
4. Set an end date before you send
Pick the switch-back date when you create the email signature, not in January. Exclaimer's guide with Wiley, Email Signatures for Dummies (3rd Edition), describes banners "still promoting a December sale in March."
5. Give each team its own version
Match the banner to the team.
Team | Banner |
|---|---|
Sales | A Christmas offer or promotion |
Customer service | Christmas opening hours |
Marketing | A seasonal event or download |
HR | A reminder about the Christmas party, shown on internal emails |
6. Show your Christmas opening hours
Put the dates your offices close and reopen in a banner or a line of text, such as "Our offices close at 5 p.m. on December 23 and reopen on January 2." Then add the same dates to your Out of Office text.
Put it on every employee's emails and switch it back on time
Experlogix's sales team used to set up their own email signatures. Global Brand and Design Manager Kayla Davison says the process was to "create an email signature and have them implement it themselves, add the image, add the link to the image, etc." With Exclaimer, she adds, they "don't even need to worry about setting it up or deactivating it."
In Exclaimer, you design the Christmas version once and assign it by department, region, sender, or recipient, with a start date and an end date. Customer service can show opening hours while sales carries an offer, and every email signature switches back to the standard one on the end date. It supports both Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Once IT grants access, marketing can run this without IT tickets. ROI Automotive, an automotive B2B services company with 350 employees, now launches email signature campaigns in 15 minutes, down from days, and marketing manages them.
Click-through analytics, which show how each banner performs, are on the Pro plan. Exclaimer's support article on applying a festive email signature walks through the setup. For design and measurement, see the guide to seasonal email signatures for marketing campaigns.
Schedule your Christmas email signature
In Exclaimer, Campaigns let marketing set the dates and the audience once, so no employee has to touch their own email signature.
Learn more or get yourself a free trial to see Exclaimer's email signature software for yourself.
