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Fonts changing
I created an email that included 2 script fonts: Dancing Script and Lobster Two. (The body of the email is a regular serif font.) When I send myself a test email, the two script fonts are changed to Comic Sans! Any idea why this is happening? Is it my ISP? My email program (Thunderbird)? Or is it a glitch?
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Best reply by William A
HelloĀ @CarolynN77Ā ,
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Dancing Script and Lobster Two are known as "web fonts," and are not a web-safe or email-safe fonts. Therefore it will be entirely dependent on the receiving program / app and device if that font will be displayed as expected. Generally speaking web fonts will only really work in browser-based email programs, and even then may not always display as expected depending on the device. When an email program/app receives coding for a font it doesn't have access to, it will default to a similar font type it does, or whatever your device's default font type is.
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If you have further questions regarding websafe and other font types, and how email programs may alter these upon receiving, please seeĀ our main articleĀ on the topic.Ā
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