问题:

Do major web and desktop email clients support the font-face feature? It would be only logical to assume that they don't but thought I'd ask anyway. Has anybody tested?

回答1:

font-face email support

Campaign monitor and type-kit have done some research on this topic and have found support to be very rare. Only iPhone and Apple Mail work at all.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3044/does-font-face-work-in-email/

This is unfortunate as, as of January 2010 all of the major browsers support font-face.

Safari 3.1
IE - all versions
Firefox 3.6
Chrome 4
Opera 10

See http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=@font-face_browser_support

回答2:

Do not use the font-face feature. It's most likely that it won't work on enough clients to be a pain.

回答3:

Since my curiosity was so big, I went, and ran a test with 17 different email clients (amen Litmus App) and as you might have guessed - pretty much none of them support @font-face. Of all the 17 clients only Apple Mail 3 and Apple Mail 4 actually supported it (amen Mac) and AOL Mail took so much time testing, I didn't even bother waiting for it, ditch minority.

So the conclusion is - unless the year number in you calendar shows 2020, don't bother using @font-face in your email newsletters, stick to Impact, and Georgia.