design-email — Email Templates That Actually Get Read

Degree of freedom: MIXED. Copy and layout judgment [HIGH freedom]; stack detect, markup, send, and preview [LOW freedom — run exactly].

Email is the one channel users check before they check your app. A well-crafted transactional email — clear, warm, fast-loading, and readable on any device — builds trust. A corporate, jargon-heavy, broken email erodes it. This skill handles design and copy. Inbox placement / SPF DKIM DMARC is enhance-email-deliverability.

How to reason

1. Detect — React Email vs MJML vs none
2. Audit — copy voice, subject, one action; client-safe layout
3. Write — specific subject, human "you", plain-text twin
4. Preview — 375px + dark mode; hand DNS off

Worked example