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@ font-face support for major email clients?

Do major web and desktop email clients support the font feature? It would be logical to assume that they do not think that I will ask anyway. Has anyone checked?

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font-face email support

Campaign monitoring and typesetting did some research on this topic and found support very rarely. Only iPhone and Apple Mail work at all.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3044/does-font-face-work-in-email/

This is sad, since as of January 2010, all major browsers support the font.

  • Safari 3.1
  • IE - all versions
  • Firefox 3.6
  • Chrome 4
  • Opera 10

See http://webfonts.info/wiki/ index.php?title=@font-face _browser_support

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Do not use the font-face function. Most likely, this will not work for enough customers to be a pain.

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Since my curiosity was so great, I went and ran a test with 17 different email clients (amen Litmus App) and, as you might guess, almost none of them support @ font-face. Of all 17 clients, only Apple Mail 3 and Apple Mail 4 really supported it (amen Mac), and AOL Mail took as much time as I did not even bother to wait, a smaller part.

So the conclusion is that if 2020 is shown in the year number indicated on the calendar, don't worry about using @ font-face in your email newsletters, stick with Impact and Georgia.

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