Global styles

Global styles (the editor’s Styles tab) define a template’s default behaviour: font, text and link colours, maximum width, and the signature’s margin and padding. Any block can override them, but until you do, it follows them.

The settings

• Font — a new template starts in Inter; pick your brand font here. The editor’s AI assistant knows the main font set in Settings → Brand.
• Base size — 13 or 14 px works well; below 12 px, the signature becomes hard to read on mobile.
• Line height — a relative value, around 1.4 to 1.5. A value that’s too tight makes lines touch in Outlook.
• Text color and Link colour — two separate settings: don’t let the browser’s default blue decide for you.
• Max width — 380 to 420 px. Beyond that, the signature forces horizontal scrolling on phones.
• Margin / Padding — the space around the signature; borders and corners are set in the inspector (Borders & Corners). If you add a background, prefer transparency when in doubt: a white background shows up in dark mode.

Global first, local second

Set the font, size and colours here before touching the blocks. Every value you force on a block is a value you’ll have to change by hand the day your brand evolves; whatever stays inherited follows on its own.

Dark mode

Email clients that apply a dark theme sometimes invert your colours, sometimes only the background. Dark grey text on a transparent background survives; black text on a forced white background becomes a white box in the middle of a dark message. The safest setting is still a transparent background and text with enough contrast to hold up either way.

What global styles don’t do

They belong to the template, not to the organization. Two templates each have their own. Changing the brand updates the logo shown by the Logo element and the colours offered in the pickers, but not the font or colours already set in a template: to change the whole organization, adjust each template’s global styles, then republish them.