Multiple custom HTML signatures in Gmail

One of the features that I desperately miss form my Outlook-user days is the ability for my email client to use custom signatures. I tend to use a lot of pushing and pulling between my email accounts, so there does arise the need often to have my work-related email signature to show up in my personal email, especially when I am using delegation to reply from the personal email to the work email.

Gmail does provide you the ability to attach signatures to all outgoing email, like any self-respecting email provider does. But it does not allow you to either use multiple signatures that you can pick at the time of sending or use HTML in it (without using Signature Tweaks from Labs) in it.

The workaround for this is to not use signatures. Instead, turn on the feature called 'Canned Responses' in Gmail Labs. You can find it in the Gmail Labs settings tab. Once enabled, compose a new message and create your new signature there and save it as a canned response, which you will see as a drop down menu in the same column that has the attachment controls. You can add multiple options using the same process.

Next time you want to pop in an email signature in any of your outgoing email, select one of the options from the canned responses and you are good to go. It is as simple as that!