There is no such thing as a “web safe font”. There, I said it. I’ve seen so many posts asking for safe fonts to use in HTML emails, usually answered with a reduced list of fonts available on Windows. …

In 2007, Apple introduced the first iPhone. The same year, Microsoft introduced Outlook 2007 on Windows and its brand new HTML and CSS rendering engine: Word. It makes a lot of sense from an authoring point of view. But let’s just say to keep things polite that Word is not…

Testing is a very important part of coding robust HTML emails. But you might not always have the time to do extensive tests. Here’s the top three email clients I recommend testing in. Gmail Apps (iOS or Android) with a Non Gmail Account (also known as GANGA or Gmail IMAP)…

Neither is Gmail. Nor is Yahoo. — When I started working on Can I email, I faced an interesting problem very early on. How will I organize email clients? The biggest reference at that time, Campaign Monitor’s CSS Guide, divided clients into three groups: Desktop, Mobile and Webmail. But I always found that confusing because a webmail…

I wrote about Gmail CSS support in 2016, quickly followed a few months later by an update following Gmail’s big responsive update. I tweeted another update in 2018. But I feel a proper article about it is long overdue. …

Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails. — Last march, I wrote a proposal for Can I email, a website similar to caniuse.com dedicated to support in email clients. Today, barely six months after, I am really happy and pleased to announce that with the help of my colleagues and members of the email geeks community, we’re officially…

And solved a twelve years old Outlook mystery along the way. — This morning I was doing some tests in Outlook on supported styles for HTML lists. And my focus quickly diverged to something completely unrelated. …

Last month, Panic announced Playdate, an adorable handeld gaming system with a black and white screen. And a crank. Yup. I’ve been a pretty big fan of Panic for a long time now, from Coda to Steven Frank’s How to Count to one of my favorite t-shirt ever to Firewatch…

Where I share my coding principles for HTML emails. — Last week I attended the EMday conference near Paris and shared some of my best practices for coding HTML emails. I wrote a full document and it’s available on GitHub for anyone to share, contribute and adapt to your own needs. …