Nicole Merlin

@MrFussyfont I haven't, sorry! 😬 The gradient trick works in Win Mail, but you need to set CSS position (i.e. to relative) on the button and then deal with the resulting issues. You can use mso-position-horizontal: center / left / right to handle the horizontal alignment though.

@moonstrips mso-color-alt:auto; results in blue text in Windows Mail 11 dark mode. Have you solved this one?!

@wilcobakker You're so welcome, I'm glad it helped!

@moonstrips Great article, what a lifesaver! Thank you! webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-…

@marketing_101 @knak Same!! 🥳

@knak @moonstrips We are so pumped to have you on the team!!!

Legendary email developer joins forces with no-code email creation platform. Not a headline you hear every day, right? Read our Q&A with @moonstrips to hear all about her mission to make life and creativity easier for marketers. knak.com/blog/blog/nico…

@knak @pompeii79 @jainamistry Thanks, you two! 🥰

I have joined the wonderful team at @knak!😊 (And they are far too kind, as you can see.)

@AlexRob22358708 Oh nice one! Great discovery!!

@moonstrips Thanks for the guide! I've still had to try out the experimental method (color:auto) to support my clients version of outlook. It turns out you can keep the vml fill transparent while satisfying the light/dark fill requirement. eg <v:rect fillcolor="#555555" opacity="0%">

I delved into the wild world of Outlook 365 for Windows and its wacky text colour changes in Dark Mode – these are the results! #emailgeeks webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-…

@The_Annett @Shopify Congratulations!!

@spodrock @pompeii79 That is annoying – was it working previously? Sometimes I have had fails because I targeted the wrong element etc. But yes, the older versions of Outlook definitely hate the gradient trick, so gte mso 16 is important.

I just successfully implemented the mso text gradient to combat Outlook's text color change in dark mode! #emailgeeks #emailpeeps #TakeThatDarkMode

@Ro_Santander @carinslater @The_Annett @megbosh @pompeii79 Let me know if you get stuck!

@carinslater @The_Annett @megbosh @pompeii79 @moonstrips Gonna start digging on this one! Thanks a lot Carin, it seems like it's a life saver, and from Nicole Merlin 🙌 Thank you all for helping me understand it better

@carinslater @Ro_Santander @The_Annett @megbosh @pompeii79 Yesss! This makes me so, so happy to hear 😊

And some follow-up good news: apparently Litmus was quite out of date, so the first tip *should* be fine to use inside VML as well. I'll need to review and add a note to the article after I double-check.

👀 [via @jitendravyas]

@superhighfives I will... never sleep again!

@megbosh Ah thank you! It's honestly all just mad experimentation, trial and error. I'd say it's mostly from digging around in Word-generated HTML and yes, looking into the Office and OOXML specs. And some of it is spider senses I guess, built up from ~10 years of fighting with Outlook!

@emailfromnaomi Thanks Naomi! I love your website, I was looking at it the other day via Slack. Also chefs kiss 😊

Chefs kiss

@megbosh Sooooo many humungous tests each containing about 5000 moonshot experiments 😂

@blackendhonesty Awesome, my pleasure! 😊

@moonstrips Thank you for this! Sharing with my coworkers.

@pompeii79 Thanks Anne! 😊

Yes, this is such an awesome post that I'm retweeting it a 2nd time. Now if only we could combat Gmail's dark mode.... Excellent job, @moonstrips! Extremely helpful!