Turn a tweet into a newsletter image
Email clients are the most hostile rendering environment left. Outlook ignores much of modern CSS, Gmail strips styles, and neither will run the JavaScript an embed needs. A plain image is the only thing that renders the same everywhere.
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The card keeps the author's name, handle and timestamp so your export credits them. The post itself still belongs to whoever wrote it, so check you have the right to reuse it before you publish.
This page exports PNG on a solid background at a modest scale: no transparency, because several clients composite it to black, and no WebP, because Outlook still refuses it. The result is deliberately boring and works in every inbox.
Questions
- Why not WebP in an email?
- Outlook and several older clients do not render WebP. PNG and JPG are the only universally safe raster formats in email.
- Should the image have a transparent background?
- No. Some clients composite transparency onto black, which looks broken. Always use a solid background in email.
- How wide should a newsletter image be?
- Around 600 pixels displayed. Exporting at 2x gives a crisp result on Retina without a large file.