Dark Dev Newsletter email template

A black developer newsletter with cyan accents, a big headline, a code photo, three numbered stories with sources, quick hits, a sponsor panel and a sign-off.

Light shows the email as designed. Dark and Gmail show how email apps can change its colors.

Industry
SaaS
Type
Marketing
Size
22.6 KB, 600 px wide

Adapted from Colorlib Email Templates (template 28, Pulse newsletter) by Colorlib, MIT license.

About this template

A weekly newsletter for software developers, written by one person and designed in a dark editor look. It suits indie writers, developer tool companies and engineering teams that share what they read.

The masthead is a short wordmark with the issue number on the right. A small cyan label and a large headline set the theme of the week, and a short intro sums up the three big stories before a cyan button links to the web version. A photo of code on a screen gives the page some texture.

Three numbered stories follow, each with a title, two lines of summary and the source with its reading time. Quick hits cover four smaller links in one line each. A slightly lighter panel holds one clearly marked sponsor, and the issue ends with a personal note and the writer’s first name.

The structure follows a modern designer newsletter template. Keep the dark palette, write summaries that save the reader a click, and always label the sponsor.

Use it in your email tool

  1. Click Copy HTML, or download the .html file.
  2. In Mailchimp, Brevo, HubSpot or Klaviyo, start a new email with the custom HTML or code editor and paste it in.
  3. Change the text, links and images. Map merge tags such as {{first_name}} and {{unsubscribe_url}} to the tags of your tool.
  4. Send a test to yourself on desktop and phone before you send it to your list.

Sections in this email

  1. Wordmark with issue number
  2. Label, headline and intro
  3. Read the issue button
  4. Code photo
  5. Three numbered stories
  6. Quick hits
  7. Sponsor panel
  8. Personal sign-off
  9. Footer

Subject line ideas

  • Commitlog 018: three shifts in how I code
  • Memory safety, open models and a database comeback
  • {{first_name}}, this week's three stories

Preview text idea

A memory safe language in a kernel, an open model that holds up, and why the old database won.

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