Font sizes in HTML emails
Does anyone here have experience with designing HTML emails? I have done lots of research through Campaign Monitor but haven't been able to find anything about setting font sizes consistently.
The problem is that the web-based clients (hotmail, gmail) are using their own font settings while the pc clients (outlook express, opera, thunderbird) are using their respective browser's rendering engines. This results in font sizes that are too small in the web clients and too big in the pc clients when using relative font sizing.
Is there any way to set relative font sizing that will work in all clients? I'm thinking I'm going to have to go with absolute, unfortunately
(BTW, I am working with a simple CSS-based layout using inline CSS - no tables)
andy206uk posted this at 17:57 — 8th June 2007.
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Yes I have and I have two words for you... Bloody Nightmare.
Don't even bother trying to use CSS and semantic markup - in the recent version of outlook, MS have stopped using the HTML rendering engine from IE and switched to using the engine from WORD! Word sucks at displaying CSS. You're better forgetting everything you've learnt about best practices in web design and going back to the old methods (tables and inline code).
Sucks doesn't it?
Andy
Roo posted this at 19:29 — 9th June 2007.
She has: 840 posts
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Oh for petes sake!! I can just see it now..."export to html mail". Unfortunatly I guess the Outlook is the post popular e-mail client so they will get away with it.
Roo
webwiz posted this at 06:07 — 11th June 2007.
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Hi Megan,
My class has a forum listing some resources that might help:
http://discuss.robinsblog.com/
Cordially, David.
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