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Using fonts in your emails
Emma Nilsson avatar
Written by Emma Nilsson
Updated over a year ago

Playing with fonts and typography is an easy way to make your email stand out and feel more alive. However, there are a few things you should know about fonts in emails before you get started.

Web-safe fonts vs. Web fonts


Web safe fonts

Web-safe fonts are fonts that are usually installed on the recipient’s computer by default, because of that these fonts don’t need to be pulled from the internet and are supported by most modern email clients. By using a web-safe font you can be sure that your email will look as expected to your recipients.

Web fonts

Web fonts are fonts that need to be pulled from the internet to be displayed in your email. Because of this, the support is very limited, most email clients do not support fetching fonts and they will instead fall back to another similar web-safe font. This might cause your email to look different in different email clients.

Client support

Email client

Web safe fonts

Web fonts

Apple Mail

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Outlook 2007-2016

✓ Yes

✘ No

Outlook 2019

✓ Yes

✘ No

Outlook for Mac

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Outlook Office 365

✓ Yes

✘ No

Gmail App

✓ Yes

✘ No

iOS

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Outlook App

✓ Yes

✘ No

Samsung Mail

✓ Yes

✘ No

Gmail

✓ Yes

✘ No

Outlook.com

✓ Yes

✘ No

Recommendations


Because of the limited web font support, we have set up fallback fonts for all the web fonts in MarketHype, however, these fonts are not identical to the web fonts and if you chose to use them your email will look different in different email clients.

If there are places in your email where you need to have a very specific font, for example, company brand or similar, we recommend using an image instead. However, it is not recommended to use images in place of text blocks since that will decrease the accessibility and your email might not display as expected or get flagged as spam.

Fonts in MarketHype


The following fonts are available in MarketHype.

Font

Type

Andale Mono

Web safe *

Arial Black

Web safe

Arial

Web safe

Book Antiqua

Web safe **

Cabin

Web font

Comic Sans MS

Web safe

Courier New

Web safe

Crimson Text

Web font

Georgia

Web safe

Helvetica

Web safe *

Impact

Web safe

Lato

Web font

Lobster Two

Web font

Montserrat

Web font

Old Standard TT

Web font

Open Sans

Web font

Pacifico

Web font

Playfair Display

Web font

Raleway

Web font

Rubik

Web font

Source Sans Pro

Web font

Symbol

Web safe

Tahoma

Web safe

Terminal

Web safe

Times New Roman

Web safe

Trebuchet MS

Web safe

Verdana

Web safe

* - Safe for Mac but not Windows

** - Safe for Windows but not Mac

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