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Using web fonts in email

13 points by ejpastorino 14y ago

petercooper 14y ago
Not a big surprise that Apple Mail, iOS Mail, and Thunderbird are the winners here. They're the clients most likely to allow HTML through verbatim in most cases. Sadly, at least in my case, most people are using Gmail on the Web and they filter the HTML in numerous mystifying ways (although this is ultimately good for us as users IMHO). Luckily there's still a lot that most mass e-mailers can do, including myself, to make e-mail pleasant for readers without niceties like custom fonts.. but one day it would be great to universally expect something a little more elaborate than HTML 3.2 ;-)
- jrabone 14y ago
  Yes, they could stop sending email full stop. There's a reason we wanted Domain Keys. Having the spamming fuckwits just moving from one starry-eyed mass email startup to the next every time they get canned wasn't it.
  - petercooper 14y ago
    It's not "spam" if people double opt in, want to receive it, read it, and send nice testimonials about how much they enjoy receiving it. At least, no more "spam" than stuff you order on Amazon is "junk mail."
cbs 14y ago
Any idea on stuffing a web font into a multipart message so the tracking-adverse email clients can still use it? Could be impracticable depending on volume anyway, 18k (size of font in example) extra per message isn't nothing.
- jcl 14y ago
  It occurs to me that that would be a slick way to get around spam filters... Just have a character in your e-mail that maps to the "Cialis" glyph, for instance. :)
  - jrabone 14y ago
    I like running my own mail server. It means I can null route people who think this is acceptable.
jrabone 14y ago
Please no, just stop. HTML in email is an awful idea. Get PDF/A attachments standardised in the client for presentation purposes, if you really must, but No Scripting.
crazygringo 14y ago
Isn't the idea behind blocking images not to let spammers know that your e-mail address is valid, upon your opening the message and sending an identifiable download request? I would have assumed a 'block images' setting would block all external references -- to stylesheets, fonts, anything. Do @import and <link> actually work even if you have images blocked?
andyzweb 14y ago
html email should be banned
- deleted 14y ago
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13 points by ejpastorino 14y ago

Not a big surprise that Apple Mail, iOS Mail, and Thunderbird are the winners here. They're the clients most likely to allow HTML through verbatim in most cases. Sadly, at least in my case, most people are using Gmail on the Web and they filter the HTML in numerous mystifying ways (although this is ultimately good for us as users IMHO). Luckily there's still a lot that most mass e-mailers can do, including myself, to make e-mail pleasant for readers without niceties like custom fonts.. but one day it would be great to universally expect something a little more elaborate than HTML 3.2 ;-)

jrabone 14y ago
Yes, they could stop sending email full stop. There's a reason we wanted Domain Keys. Having the spamming fuckwits just moving from one starry-eyed mass email startup to the next every time they get canned wasn't it.
- petercooper 14y ago
  It's not "spam" if people double opt in, want to receive it, read it, and send nice testimonials about how much they enjoy receiving it. At least, no more "spam" than stuff you order on Amazon is "junk mail."

cbs 14y ago

Any idea on stuffing a web font into a multipart message so the tracking-adverse email clients can still use it? Could be impracticable depending on volume anyway, 18k (size of font in example) extra per message isn't nothing.

jcl 14y ago
It occurs to me that that would be a slick way to get around spam filters... Just have a character in your e-mail that maps to the "Cialis" glyph, for instance. :)
- jrabone 14y ago
  I like running my own mail server. It means I can null route people who think this is acceptable.

jrabone 14y ago

Please no, just stop. HTML in email is an awful idea. Get PDF/A attachments standardised in the client for presentation purposes, if you really must, but No Scripting.

crazygringo 14y ago

Isn't the idea behind blocking images not to let spammers know that your e-mail address is valid, upon your opening the message and sending an identifiable download request? I would have assumed a 'block images' setting would block all external references -- to stylesheets, fonts, anything. Do @import and <link> actually work even if you have images blocked?

andyzweb 14y ago

html email should be banned

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