Email design is hard — a lot harder than it should be. The release of Foundation for Emails 2 pushed email design and development forward by bringing in some of the best practices of web development. This was awesome for people that know about the web, but things like Npm and Gulp are scary and sometimes hard to install, especially if you don’t have a strong web background.

We’ve made it one more step closer to opening up email design to everybody. Meet Slinky.

Code up a custom responsive email using just your web browser and our lightning-fast Inky Templating language. Oh yeah, it’s all baked into the CodePen below. Just fire up the CodePen, write your markup in either Inky or vanilla HTML, and inline that sucker! Check it out below:

Also, check out the piece Chris Coyier of CodePen and CSS-Tricks.com wrote a fantastic breakdown of how Slinky works and how it can be used with major ESP's like Mailchimp or API's like MailGun.