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The Google Font API and HTML Email

05.24.2010

Google, in conjunction with Typekit, just released a new Font API that allows designers to easily import non-standard OS fonts into their web pages. The API uses the CSS @font-face rule but relies on their CDN to provide the data bandwidth, which is probably much faster than yours. After hearing about this we wanted to investigate and find out the email client support for such an API.

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Supported Email Clients


  • AOL 9
  • BlackBerry
  • Entourage 2004
  • Entourage 2008
  • Gmail
  • Hotmail
  • iPhone
  • Windows Live Mail
  • Windows Mail
  • Mac Mail
  • Outlook Express
  • Outlook 2003
  • Outlook 2007
  • Outlook 2010
  • Thunderbird 2
  • Thunderbird 3 – Beta
  • Yahoo Classic
  • Yahoo Mail

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