Editor Fonts

Define the fonts that shall be available in the content, template and customization editors, wherever a font selection is possible.

Each font is listed with its name, list of fallback fonts and type. These values are described in more detail below.

To add a new font to the list, click [Add Font] at the top right.

To edit an existing entry, click the icon of that entry.

To delete an existing entry, click the icon of that entry. Note, that there must always be one font defined, so the last entry cannot be deleted.

To define the default font for new mail jobs and templates, select it from the drop-down list at the top of the fonts table. Whenever you create a new mail job or template, it will start off with this font as the selected font. (There is no need to confirm this selection. It becomes active as soon as it is made.)

In the edit dialog of a font entry, supply the following settings:

• Font Name: Specify the name of the font. This must be a single name. Do not enclose the font name in any quotes and do not add any additional escape characters. Simply type the plain and exact font name.

• Fallback Fonts: Optional list of fallback fonts that are to be used if the main font (see above) is not present on the recipient's or subscriber's system. Leave empty if you do not want to specify any fallback fonts. Or specify one or several fallback font names, separated by comma. Each font name must use the correct spelling that is valid to specify this font in a CSS style. This means that you must use quoting and/or escaping as per the CSS rules that apply to the "font-family" style.

  If multiple fonts are specified, then the recipient/subscriber's system will automatically select the first font in the list that is available.

  Note: It is not necessary to specify one of the generic font names (like "sans-serif" or "monospace") as a fallback in this field. This final fallback is instead specified in the "Default Fallback" field (see below). Any generic font name that you specify here will be stripped.

• Default Fallback: Select one of the generic font names as a final fallback that is used if neither the main font nor any of the fallback fonts (if any are specified) are available on the recipient's or subscriber's system.

  Which font is then actually used depends on the browser or email client that displays the font. For example, in your current browser, these generic fonts are rendered like this: sans-serif serif monospace cursive fantasy

• Font Type: Specify the type of the font:

  • Standard Font: This type assumes that the font is already installed and available on the recipient's or subscriber's system. When a standard font is selected for use in the editor, the editor only inserts the necessary style or CSS directive to select this font. So when the recipient/subscriber's system sees this directive, it knows which font to use (of the fonts available on the system).

    Be careful to only specify such fonts as standard fonts, that have a high probability of being present on all (or most) of your recipient/subscriber systems. If the font is not present, the system will instead use the first of the fallback fonts that is present, or ultimately (if none of the fallback fonts is present either), it will use the default fallback font (see above). Using a font that is not widely in use will only have the effect, that most of your recipients/subscribers will see the default fallback instead, which is usually not desired.

  • Web Font: This type assumes that the font is usually not already installed on the recipient's or subscriber's system, but that the system will instead load it from the internet when required. When a web font is selected for use in the editor, the editor not only inserts the necessary style or CSS directive to select this font, but it also inserts a URL that allows the recipient/subscriber's system to download the font from the web.

    If the system cannot download the web font, then the first available font from the fallback list (or ultimately the default fallback) is used instead.

    It is quite safe to use such a web font on the subscriber pages of a subscriber list, because these pages are displayed normally in the subscriber's browser, where a web font can easily be loaded.

    However, care must be taken when using a web font in the content of a mail job (or a user defined template that is later used for the content of a mail job). This is because not all email clients or web email clients are able to display web fonts. These email clients will then instead display the first font from the list of fallbacks that is available on the recipient's system, or ultimately the default fallback font. It is therefore strongly recommended that if you define a web font that you plan to use in the content of a mail job, that you provide a proper list of fallback fonts (which should then be standard fonts), so that those recipients that cannot see the desired web font, will at least see a nice fallback font.

• Web Font URL: If the font type "Web Font" has been selected (see above), then you also need to specify the URL from which the web font can be loaded.

  Usually, the web font hosting service either gives you a <link> tag that you can use to embed the web font into HTML code, or an @import directive that you can use to embed the web font into a style sheet. Both of these variants contain a URL and it is this URL (not the whole <link> tag or @import directive) that you must enter here into the Web Font URL field, as shown by the following examples. The URL that you need to enter is highlighted in each example:

  <link href="https://sample.fonthost.com/fontDetailsHere" rel="stylesheet">

  @import url('https://sample.fonthost.com/fontDetailsHere');

Note: In the main font name, do not use any quotes or escaping. Simply specify the plain font name. When later used as a CSS style value, the name will automatically be enclosed in single quotes.

In the list of fallback fonts however, you need to use proper quoting and/or CSS identifier escaping (with the backslash character) if the font name requires this. Just as if you would specify the fallback fonts directly in a CSS directive. For technical reasons, when using quotes, please use the single quote <'> instead of the double quotes. Any double quotes will automatically be replaced with single quotes.

System Default

Once you have modified the list of available fonts in any way, you can click the Reset to Default List link in the top left corner to throw out your changes and return to the system defined default font list. This default list currently contains the following fonts: