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How to insert a font stack into Exclaimer Cloud

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Relevant Products: Exclaimer Cloud - Signatures for Office 365 | Exclaimer Cloud - Signatures for G Suite |Exclaimer Cloud - Signatures for Exchange

Scenario

You are not sure if the font you have chosen for your signature template design is web safe and available for use in your Exclaimer Signature solution. 

Once you have established whether your chosen font is web safe or not, you can implement a font stack into your signature. 

Notes: A web safe font is a font that is installed across all operating systems. If your chosen font is not installed on the email recipient's PC, they will not see the font as you intended when you created your signature design.

If your chosen font is not available across all operating systems, you can create a font stack with a list of fallback fonts.

- Font stacks control how the font will appear to the recipient if they do not have access to your chosen font.

- Fallback fonts allow you to specify web safe alternatives to fall back on if needed. This allows you to control how the signature appears across all devices, as you can choose the most similar fallback font to your original font.

For more information, see Web safe fonts and font stacks.

Inserting Font Stack

Follow the steps below to implement font stack into your signature:

  1. Take the initial Font type you are looking to use. In this example, we use Calibri.

  2. Now, create a Font Stack - this is simply a list of your chosen fonts. 
    Please ensure that you separate each font with a comma and space.

    Example: Calibri, Candara, Segoe, Segoe UI, Optima, Arial, sans-serif.

    Note: If you are not sure which fonts to use, look at the CSS Font Stack for a list of fonts that already have font stacks created.
  3. Select the full signature by selecting the outer edge of the template.

    The Signature properties window is displayed:

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  4. In Font Family, remove the current font type and replace it with your Font Stack - the list you created earlier (see step 2).

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    Caution: Due to the behavior out of our control, the Outlook client will use the first font (specified in the font stack), then remove the remaining fonts (specified in the font stack) from the HTML coding. 

    We recommend you use font stacks for server-side signatures only.
  5. Once the changes have been made, simply close the window for the changes to take place.

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