Sometimes it’s not enough to use email-friendly fonts.

However, their alternatives are so similar that no one will notice the difference. In the table at the end of this post, you will see that email-safe fonts also have fallbacks. Georgia, Verdana, and Trebuchet are some of the most neutral and easy-to-read typefaces. The most popular safe fonts for emails are:Īll the typefaces mentioned above have great readability. This means that by using them, all your subscribers will see your text the same way. So what would be a great solution to avoid any mismatches? Use email-friendly fontsĮmails have a list of fonts that are considered to be safe to use. Considering that Gmail is the leading email provider, it’s safe to stick to Gmail supported fonts. In other cases, your message will be displayed in the predefined email client’s fallback typeface, which might be far away from the one initially intended. Your subscriber’s email client will display your message in the intended font style only if this font style is compatible on their end. Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail – they all have sets of default fonts that differ from each other. Not all email clients can display fonts equally. The second thing is the technical reason.

For the sake of general understanding, I’m including a short video explaining the Comic Sans phenomenon.

The Comic Sans font has received a lot of attention even from scientists who provided studies for why it is so hated by people.

Apple default font