What are email-safe fonts?

There are a number of fonts considered safe to use across all devices. These fonts ensure your subscribers see text the same way regardless of device or email client.

This is a list of email-safe font families, with their fall-back fonts

  • ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  • Arial, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  • ‘Arial Black’, ‘Arial Bold’, Gadget, sans-serif;
  • ‘Arial Narrow’, Arial, sans-serif;
  • ‘Arial Rounded MT Bold’, ‘Helvetica Rounded’, Arial, sans-serif;
  • ‘Avant Garde’, Avantgarde, ‘Century Gothic’, CenturyGothic, ‘AppleGothic’, sans-serif;
  • Calibri, Candara, Segoe, ‘Segoe UI’, Optima, Arial, sans-serif;
  • Candara, Calibri, Segoe, ‘Segoe UI’, Optima, Arial, sans-serif;
  • ‘Century Gothic’, CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif;
  • ‘Franklin Gothic Medium’, ‘Franklin Gothic’, ‘ITC Franklin Gothic’, Arial, sans-serif;
  • Futura, ‘Trebuchet MS’, Arial, sans-serif;
  • Geneva, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
  • ‘Gill Sans’, ‘Gill Sans MT’, Calibri, sans-serif;
  • Impact, Haettenschweiler, ‘Franklin Gothic Bold’, Charcoal, ‘Helvetica Inserat’, ‘Bitstream Vera Sans Bold’, ‘Arial Black’, sans serif;
  • ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, ‘Lucida Sans’, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
  • Optima, Segoe, ‘Segoe UI’, Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;
  • ‘Segoe UI’, Frutiger, ‘Frutiger Linotype’, ‘Dejavu Sans’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans-serif;
  • Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif;
  • ‘Trebuchet MS’, ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, ‘Lucida Sans’, Tahoma, sans-serif;
  • Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
  • Arial, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  • ‘Big Caslon’, ‘Book Antiqua’, ‘Palatino Linotype’, Georgia, serif;
  • ‘Bodoni MT’, Didot, ‘Didot LT STD’, ‘Hoefler Text’, Garamond, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • Garamond, Baskerville, ‘Baskerville Old Face’, ‘Hoefler Text’, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • ‘Arial Rounded MT Bold’, ‘Helvetica Rounded’, Arial, sans-serif;
  • ‘Avant Garde’, Avantgarde, ‘Century Gothic’, CenturyGothic, ‘AppleGothic’, sans-serif;
  • Cambria, Georgia, serif;
  • Didot, ‘Didot LT STD’, ‘Hoefler Text’, Garamond, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • Garamond, Baskerville, ‘Baskerville Old Face’, ‘Hoefler Text’, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • Georgia, Times, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • ‘Goudy Old Style’, Garamond, ‘Big Caslon’, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • ‘Hoefler Text’, ‘Baskerville old face’, Garamond, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • ‘Gill Sans’, ‘Gill Sans MT’, Calibri, sans-serif;
  • ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  • Perpetua, Baskerville, ‘Big Caslon’, ‘Palatino Linotype’, Palatino, ‘URW Palladio L’, ‘Nimbus Roman No9 L’, serif;
  • Rockwell, ‘Courier Bold’, Courier, Georgia, Times, ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
  • ‘Rockwell Extra Bold’, ‘Rockwell Bold’, monospace;
  • TimesNewRoman, ‘Times New Roman’, Times, Baskerville, Georgia, serif;
  • ‘Andale Mono’, AndaleMono, monospace;
  • Consolas, monaco, monospace;
  • ‘Courier New’, Courier, ‘Lucida Sans Typewriter’, ‘Lucida Typewriter’, monospace;
  • ‘Book Antiqua’, Palatino,’Palatino Linotype’, ‘Palatino LT STD’, Georgia, serif;
  • ‘Calisto MT’, ‘Bookman Old Style’, Bookman, ‘Goudy Old Style’, Garamond, ‘Hoefler Text’, ‘Bitstream Charter’, Georgia, serif;
  • Monaco, Consolas, ‘Lucida Console’, monospace;
  • Copperplate, ‘Copperplate Gothic Light’, fantasy;
  • ‘Brush Script MT’, cursive;