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Beyond the Envelope™ @Paul_Airy // Web Fonts in email: How? What? Where? Web Fonts

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Web Fonts. As Email Designers and Developers we want to include them in our emails. But how do we go about it? What font formats and licensing options should we choose? And where are the best places in our emails to use them?

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  • 1. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // Web Fonts in email: How? What? Where? Web Fonts

2. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Paul Airy. 3. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Beyond the Envelope HTML Email Research, Design and Development Laboratory 4. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // How to implement Web Fonts. // What the font formats and licensing options are. // Where to place Web Fonts in your emails. How? What? Where? 5. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy www= :( 6. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy @= :( 7. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy But 8. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // Apple iPhone. // Outlook. // Apple iPad. Top 5 Email Clients* // Gmail. // Apple Mail. *Calculated from 395 million opens tracked by Litmus Email Analytics in April 2014 9. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy 46% 10. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy :) 11. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Why? 12. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy UX. 13. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy How? // Web Fonts in email: How? What? Where? 14. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // 1. Import your font in the .// 2. Declare your font in the font stack. How to implement Web Fonts 15. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy How to implement Web Fonts: Self-Hosted @font-face { font-family: Playball'; src: url(http:// www.beyondtheenvelope.co.uk/ webfonts/playball-regular.woff') format(woff); } 16. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy How to implement Web Fonts: Hosted 17. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy How to implement Web Fonts: Hosted @import url(http:// fonts.googleapis.com/css? family=Playball); 18. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy In the font stack font-family: 'Playball', cursive, georgia, times, serif; 19. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy 20. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy What? // Web Fonts in email: How? What? Where? 21. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Formats. 22. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // TrueType (TT). // OpenType (TrueType and PostScript Flavours). // Web Open Font Format (WOFF). Font Formats // Embedded OpenType (EOT). // PostScript (PS). 23. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // Developed by Apple and Microsoft. // Initially had a poor reputation for low quality. // Can now be relied on for quality. TrueType (TT) 24. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // Comes in two avours (TrueType and PostScript). // Additional characters within set (e.g. ligatures). OpenType (OT) // Valid Web Font format. 25. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // Not technically a font format. // Think of it as a .zip le for fonts. // May well become the standard in the future. Web Open Font Format (WOFF) 26. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Suppliers. 27. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Web Font Suppliers 28. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Licensing. 29. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // CSS rules delivered via API. // Free or commercially accessible. // No standard pricing model for email. Hosted Licensing: Pros and Cons 30. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // Control. // Management Required. Server. Formats. // Can be more expensive. Self-Hosted Licensing: Pros and Cons 31. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Where? // Web Fonts in email: How? What? Where? 32. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // Avoid brand sensitive areas. // Anywhere else. // Allow for text reowing within table cells. Where? // Avoid body copy within static table cells. 33. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy // How to implement Web Fonts. // What Font Formats and licensing to choose from. // Where to place Web Fonts. How? What? Where? 34. Beyond the Envelope@Paul_Airy Thank you. // Web Fonts in email: How? What? Where?