font
Defines the typeface and properties to use in enclosed elements.
This is actually a shorthand notation. Surprisingly, even though GMail does not support the font-family
CSS property, it does support the shorthand version.
Usage:
<font face="Times,'Times New Roman',serif;" size="3" color="#00CC00" style="font: 12pt Times,'Times New Roman',serif; color: #00CC00;">
</font>
Tag Attribute
Used To...
face
Sets the typeface of the enclosed text to the first available font in the comma-separated list of font names. Use single quotes around font names that have a space in them (as per the usage example). Default font names that work in e-mail are
sans-serif, serif, and monospace, and one of these names should be at the end of any list of fonts.
style
Specify an inline style for this tag. Used to fine-tune a font setting
size
Set the size to an absolute size, from 1 to 7, or relative to the
<basefont> size, using +n or -n (required).
color
Set the color of the enclosed text to the desired color using a hexidecimal-based number either in the #RGB (ex.: #69C = #6699CC) or #RRGGBB (ex.: #96C4F3) format.
NOTES:
As you can see, the font: shorthand notation is very useful
The best practice for font control is to use multiple redundancies.
Use the face tag attribute whenever possible, as Gmail does not
support the font-family CSS selector and may ignore any other CSS properties
in the style tag attribute.
This reference was created for Innovyx by Steve Cartoon Q3 2007. All rights reversed.