Newsletter Email Template — Curated Weekend Reads
A warm, editorial curated-reads newsletter with five picks and a personal intro. Designed for media and publishing brands.
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The prompt
Two ways to build this email in plain language. The fastest is Temway's in-editor assistant — open the chat drawer in the email editor and paste the recipe below. Or connect Claude or ChatGPT via Temway's MCP and paste it there; the agent builds the email step by step. Either way, adapt the copy and colors to your brand.
- An email is a top-to-bottom stack of blocks — the recipe follows that order.
- A
[layout]step becomes a single image (great for heroes); everything else stays live text and links. - Theme the footer to match — the recipe's last step does exactly that.
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A dark, editorial weekend digest that opens with a warm invitation — “pour something warm and dig in” — then delivers five picks, each a one-line title with a single-sentence tease and a “Read →” link. Georgia throughout, amber accents on a near-black canvas, hairline dividers between picks. It reads like a literary magazine’s table of contents, not a link farm. The sign-off is a quiet “That’s the list. See you next Saturday.”
Snapshot
- Goal: deliver five curated reads with enough warmth to feel personal, enough restraint to feel curated.
- Audience & tone: weekend readers of a media/publishing brand. Editorial, literary, unhurried — a printed supplement, not a push notification.
- Palette: page
#242a38· container#111827· text#f9fafb/#868a92(muted) · accent#d97706 - Font:
Georgia, Times New Roman, serif - Artwork: none — fully native blocks.
Build recipe
Each step is one block in the flat stack, top to bottom.
[native]= a real email block.[layout]= a free-form layout embedded as a single image.
- [native] Kicker — text. “The Weekend Edit”, fontSize: 14, color
#d97706, left, uppercase. - [native] Headline — text. “Reads worth your weekend”, fontSize: 28, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Body copy 1 — text. “Slow morning, full inbox — here are the pieces we couldn’t stop thinking about. Pour something warm and dig in.”, fontSize: 16, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Story title 1 — text. “The quiet economics of doing one thing well”, fontSize: 20, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Body copy 2 — text. “Why the most durable companies keep saying no. Read →”, fontSize: 16, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Rule 1 — divider. full-measure rule, 1px, color
#e9e9e9. - [native] Story title 2 — text. “What a diner taught us about retention”, fontSize: 20, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Body copy 3 — text. “Loyalty isn’t a program. It’s a feeling. Read →”, fontSize: 16, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Rule 2 — divider. full-measure rule, 1px, color
#e9e9e9. - [native] Story title 3 — text. “The case against the infinite feed”, fontSize: 20, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Body copy 4 — text. “A short argument for endings. Read →”, fontSize: 16, color
#f9fafb, left. - [native] Body copy 5 — text. “That’s the list. See you next Saturday.”, fontSize: 14, color
#868a92, left. - [native] Footer rule — divider. short (96px) rule, 1px, color
#e9e9e9. - [native] Footer social — social. Icon row, social.color
#d97706, style circle-outline, center. - [native] Footer address — address. Postal address + unsubscribe, address.color
#868a92, address.fontFamilyGeorgia, Times New Roman, serif, center.
Make it yours
- Swap the five titles and teases for your own picks — keep each tease to one sentence so the title/tease rhythm holds.
- Keep Georgia for the literary feel, or switch to your publication’s serif.
- Recolor the amber accent
#fbbf24— it carries the masthead, the links, and the social icons, so change it once for the whole email.
About newsletter email templates
A newsletter is the one email category built for a relationship, not a single moment. There is no hard deadline and no one dominant CTA — the job is to show up on a predictable cadence often enough that subscribers recognize the format and know where to look for the update they actually care about.
See all newsletter templates →How is a newsletter template different from a promotional email template?
A newsletter is built for a recurring cadence and a returning audience — the design favors consistent section structure, so readers know where to look each issue, over a single hard sell. Promotional templates are built around one offer and one deadline instead.
What sections should a company newsletter include?
Most effective newsletters below hold to three or four recurring sections — a short editor's note, one or two curated highlights, and a closing link or two — rather than trying to cover everything that happened since the last send.
Can I reuse the same newsletter template every month?
Yes, and it's the recommended approach — clone it once, then swap the content each cycle so subscribers recognize the format immediately instead of relearning a new layout every send.
Do Temway newsletter templates support an unsubscribe link and merge tags?
Yes — every template includes a compliant unsubscribe footer and supports Temway's merge-tag picker for personalizing subject lines and greetings per recipient.