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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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  • Mobile Device Simulations - Ever wonder how your email renders on an iPad, Andriod, or Windows Mobile device?  We are going to be adding these mobile clients soon!
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  • Verify Links and Redirects - This link validation tool would verify that all of your links and redirects are working properly and loading in a timely manner.
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