Email newsletter and web fonts

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I’m creating a HTML email. Is it possible to use web fonts (such as Google web fonts or TypeKit) or do I have to stick web safe fonts?

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Mark

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I would not count on external resources from an e-mail reader. Definitely not if it loads from a JavaScript loader. You might be able to load css from a URL, but seriously I would ensure that you had a good set of fallbacks in the font-family attribute. There are even e-mail readers that will not execute “head” CSS, requiring you to use inline CSS for everything. That would mean that each paragraph or whatever that loaded a Web font would have to do it all over again – huge waste of your time and the reader’s.

Walter

On Mar 21, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Mark wrote:

I’m creating a HTML email. Is it possible to use web fonts (such as Google web fonts or TypeKit) or do I have to stick web safe fonts?

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Hi Walter

Thought as much. Thanks for confirming.

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