39 Beautiful Email Newsletter Templates

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Email newsletters are an important marketing and communications tool for many businesses. You can stay in touch with past customers, market your products to those who have expressed interest but haven’t yet purchased, and get extra exposure for your sales and promotions. Email is an extremely cost effective marketing method and it is likely to produce a higher return on investment than any other type of marketing or advertising.

The appearance of your newsletter can be enhanced with an attractive design, but having a custom design isn’t the only option. Templates are available for newsletters, and many of them are provided by companies that manage mailing lists like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Those two providers market towards designers more than competitors like AWeber, so as a result they tend to have better quality and quantity of templates available.

Here is a look at some of the templates available.

AWeber:

We  use AWeber to manage our own newsletter, and we recommend them as a great option. You can read our review of AWeber if you’re researching which mailing list manager to use. AWeber makes it easy to use any email template, regardless of whether it is one of theirs, one you have designed, or one you have purchased somewhere else.

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MailChimp Templates:

These templates are free for use on paid accounts. Free accounts are limited to more basic templates. MailChimp has made design a big priority. Their user interface is very nicely designed and easy to use, and they’ve also made it a priority to offer these professional-quality templates to their paid users.

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Campaign Monitor Templates:

Like MailChimp, Campaign Monitor also markets to designers, so naturally they have made it a priority to offer well-designed email templates. Campaign Monitor users can take advantage of a wide variety of templates, including the ones showcased below.

Modern Template

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Cool Template

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Typographic Template

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Airmail

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Clouds Template

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Fabric Template

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Cotton Rag Template

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Color Direct Template

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Eco Template

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Helvetica Template

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Worn Template

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Classic Template

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Misty Meadow Template

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Retro Green

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Retro Stripes

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Gridworks Template

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Premium Templates:

The templates in this section are not related to a particular mailing list manager, they are just general HTML templates. Some mailing list managers will require you to use some proprietary code in your templates in order for them to work with their system. If you are using one of these mailing list managers you will need to make some edits to the template. Other mailing list managers will allow you to just paste in the HTML of your email, so you can essentially use any HTML email template without needing to add their proprietary code snippets.

FocusMail ($22)

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eMail ($22)

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JumpMail ($22)

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Market ($14)

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BlauMail ($14)

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Vesatile Newsletter ($15)

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Modern Business 3 Light ($15)

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Corporate Newsletter ($12)

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Elegance ($10)

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16 Responses

Jenn Staz September 13th, 2011

I’ve been told to check out Mail Chimp and aweber. Thanks for sharing these templates… I didn’t realize there was such a wide range! Oh and I’m pretty sure I want a Mail Chimp plushie… too cute.

Vandelay Website Design September 14th, 2011

Jenn,
We use MailChimp for our newsletter and we’re very happy with it.

Umer September 14th, 2011

What great templates.

Reston mls September 16th, 2011

Cool! I love the MailChimp templates the most. Thanks for collecting them and showing them here :)

jacque smith September 16th, 2011

Wow….cool templates…i like it.

Byan Blue September 16th, 2011

really awesome templates for the web designs for making a web page or websites.
Thanks for sharing…..

Edison Leon September 16th, 2011

Hummm great desings, though I wonder if image background shows (for those templates that apply) for all email apps out there, browser based or not?

susan September 26th, 2011

its so cool and i really like some of the mail chimp templates!!!!!!!!!!

Sanjeeb Sahu January 23rd, 2012

These are some beautiful email templates..Thanks for sharing.

Renate October 7th, 2012

I really like the “Elegance” template, but it is only available in black, brown and green. What is the possibility of getting it in teal or blue?

Steven Snell October 7th, 2012

Renate,
You would have to contact the designer or the website selling the template. We are not selling the templates shown here, it’s simply a blog post with links to available templates.

Michael Reimer October 29th, 2012

Got some really great email newsletter designs here. Another one that I created that is fee to use can be found at http://www.bestpsdfreebies.com/freebie/pay-with-a-tweet-friday-free-email-template-psd-with-5-variations/

Philip Harper January 3rd, 2013

Great post for newsletter inspiration!

Forbes Burton January 23rd, 2013

We’ve used both Mailchimp and Aweber, we have our main content handled by Aweber however for our convenience, but Mailchimp is very capable. Thanks for the article, great to have this kind of resource.

Allyson Steffey February 12th, 2013

Now a days, email newsletter is one of the best ways to communicate with persons or company or agency. For that your design plays most important role. So attractive template gives more conversions or leads. In this blog, there are so many good templates which will work great for business.

Amy Birch March 28th, 2013

Thanks for sharing these. I love templates that are eye catching and modern, just like Campaign Monitor’s Helevtica template and the Colour Direct template.
It’s hard to compete in crowded inboxes and these templates offer something different.
Thanks again!
Amy

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