Email Signature Best Practices
Logos and graphics in email signatures are not accessible and rendering logos correctly across multiple email platforms is challenging. Hence, Cornell University recommends against using logos in email signatures. For consistency across email communications, please follow these Cornell Lab of Ornithology email signature best practices:
- No icons or other graphic elements due to web accessibility issues
- Use only type in signatures without images or attachments for a clean, concise, and accessible presentation
- May include links to the Lab’s social media accounts and websites
- No personal quotes
- Link to the Cornell land acknowledgment optional
- Hybrid schedule optional
- Pronouns optional
- Degree credentials optional
- Phone number optional
Examples
Note: If you copy and paste from the examples below, please be sure to exclude all formatting by using Edit > Paste and Match Style
Jo Cardinal (they, them)
Project Manager
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 254-2473
birds.cornell.edu
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram
Jane Cardinal, PhD (she, her, hers)
Software Engineer
Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Birds of the World
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
M, W, F – in the office | T ,TH – working remotely
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home
Merry Joe Cardinal
Research Associate
Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 254-2473
K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
Cornell land acknowledgment