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Templates
Templates are available to help you use the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV brand effectively.
Email Signature
There are three layout options to choose from, and they must all include ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s institutional logo.
- The official email signature
- Includes gender pronouns
- Includes a territorial acknowledgement for all campuses
All signatures must appear on a plain white background. See below for examples.
Setting up your email signature
Follow these instructions on .
Important: You must create a signature for all platforms that you use for ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Mail.
Where you add a new signature, copy and paste the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV signature, excluding the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV logo below (this will be your last step):
Official ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV email signature
Your Name
Your Title | Your Department
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV | Your Building Location
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
T: 604 123 4567 | M: 604 123 4567 | website
Facebook | Twitter
Official ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV email signature with gender pronouns
Although gender pronouns are optional, including them in your signature is a great way to normalize the practice, creating a more inclusive environment for gender diverse members of the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV community.
Your Name
Pronouns: they, them, their | she, her, hers | he, him, his
Your Title | Your Department
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV | Your Building Location
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
T: 604 123 4567 | M: 604 123 4567 | website
Facebook | Twitter
Official ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV email signature with territorial acknowledgement
Your Name
Your Title | Your Department
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV | Your Building Location
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
T: 604 123 4567 | M: 604 123 4567 | website
Facebook | Twitter
Email specifications
Replace placeholder text with your information. Delete text sections that are not needed.
Your Name:
- Font: Arial (PC) or Helvetica (Mac)
- Font size: 10pt
- Font weight: bold
- Color: black
Your Title | Your Department:
- Font: Arial (PC) or Helvetica (Mac)
- Font size: 10pt
- Font weight: normal
- Color: black
Location and Contact Information:
- Font: Arial (PC) or Helvetica (Mac)
- Font size: 10pt
- Font weight: normal
- Color: black
- Use | to separate items
Social Media:
- Social media addresses should be hyperlinked to their respective platform name, not the social media handle name
- Delete social media names that are not needed
Adding hyperlinks
Outlook web app
- Highlight the desired text and click the downward arrow icon in the text editing bar, then click the hyperlink icon
- In the address box, enter the web address. Click OK
Outlook for PC
- Highlight the desired text and click in the text editing bar
- In the address box, enter the web address. Click OK
Outlook for Mac
- Highlight the desired text you want to hyperlink
- Right-click highlighted text, click hyperlink (^⌘K)
- Enter the web address. click OK
Add ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV logo below your contact information
There are two versions of email signature that include the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV logo:
- Includes only the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV logo
- Includes the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV logo with territorial acknowledgement for all campuses
- Download the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV logo to your computer:
- Click on the image icon in your email signature editing window and upload the logo
- Ensure there’s a one-line space between your signature and the logo, as shown in the example above
- Save your signature and test it
Additional information (optional)
Add other info below in a light grey colour after the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV signature
- Font: Arial (PC) or Helvetica (Mac)
- Font size: 8pt or 10pt
- Font weight: normal
- Color: light grey
The best practice is to avoid adding personal information, quotes or other information that is not endorsed by ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV.
Do not add territorial acknowledgement as text because the Unicode characters will be flagged as spam by some external mail servers.
Need help?
Contact sfu-brand@sfu.ca for questions, help or suggestions.