Community Digest · Warm

It opens: "The Quiet Word The circle, in October 91,400 words written 14 drafts finished 3 first publications What the circle made this month. Ninety-one thousand words is a strange number to celebrate, because none of it happened at once. It happened...". Preheader: "Nine thousand words, four finished drafts, one wedding toast.". Links: "Delia Rios, "The Last Ferry"", "Ben Okafor, "Notes on Quitting"", "Marta Lindqvist, a wedding toast", "Visit the circle". 0 images, 3 Outlook-only blocks, no dark-mode query, system fonts.

The spread is what matters on this template: 100 in Superhuman against 91 in Outlook Classic, a 9-point gap across the same file. 18 of the 21 clients render it without a single flagged property. Outlook Classic is the one to preview against after any edit, because it is where this template has the least margin, and the 68 warnings behind that score are concentrated there rather than spread evenly.

At 8.4KB compiled it has roughly 94KB of headroom before Gmail clips the message at 102KB and hides the rest behind a "View entire message" link. Inlined CSS and base64 images both count toward that, so watch it as you add sections.

Safe to customise: Imagery, colour and section order. This is the one category where restructuring is expected, and the per-client table on this page is how you check the restructure survived.

Leave alone: The image widths declared as HTML attributes as well as CSS. Outlook reads the attribute and ignores the stylesheet, so an image sized only in CSS renders at its natural pixel width and blows the layout out sideways.

Modified it? Check your version against the same 21 clients.