hspace add equal space either horizontally or vertically and therefore don't allow you to add space just on the right or just on the bottom. An alternative solution to this problem is to put the image in a table, and provide an extra column (to the right or left) and an extra row (to the top or bottom) put in a spacer.gif (1px x 1px transparent gif) and set the width to 10px for the column and length to 10px for the row. Another solution would be to add extra space to your image of the background color (usually white) to create the offset. Thanks to Christopher Szydelko in the comments below for these two alternative solutions to the space around images issue. Don't put CSS in the &lt;head&gt; It will be stripped out by several HTML clients so styles need to be inline like so: Don't use background images You can, but they won't be seen in Outlook. So whenever you specify a background image for a heading which can be seen by most of your newsletter subscribers, always make sure there is a background color as well so that Outlook subscribers see the same effect. will show the background image for most of the newsletter subscribers: but will show the background color for the newsletter subscribers who use Outlook (because of the background-color: #00c5ca in the inline style): Test There are a couple of services that will provide you with screenshots of your emails on all the various