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Asked: 2026-05-26T14:38:22+00:00

I’m taking over from someone who builds our HTML emails and the templates are

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I’m taking over from someone who builds our HTML emails and the templates are filled with font tags. Is this really necessary? I know CSS support isn’t great in emails, but if I set an inline style for text on the container <td> like this…

<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica;color:#555555;font-size:12px">

…then surely this will work across the majority of email clients. From the tests I’ve performed this seems to be the case, and this article seems to confirm this.

Anyone have any input as to whether <font> tags are really necessary in HTML emails?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your assumption is correct. They’re unnecessary. Also, technically the <font> tag was deprecated starting with HTML 4, so you might as well remove it for that sake alone.

    If you needed inline css styles on specific text, you would be better of using an inline-styled <span> tag than a <font> tag.

    Campaign Monitor has a great and up-to-date resource on current CSS support in emails.

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