Font Manager

Font Manager

This feature enables you to add and manage custom fonts and use them in your email campaigns. It simplifies font management across the Drag & Drop and Rich Media editors.

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Feature Availability

The feature is available to customers on the Advanced and Cutting Edge plans.

Add Custom Font

You can add custom fonts by navigating to Settings > _Channel > Email > Advanced Setup from the CleverTap dashboard. You can add up to 100 custom fonts.

The following are the steps to add a custom font:

  1. From the Advanced Setup page, click Font Manager.
Font Manager

Font Manager

  1. Click + Custom Font. The Add Font popup opens.
Add Custom Font

Add Custom Font

  1. Enter the following details:
Field NameDescription
Font NameUniquely identifies the font. This field has a limit of up to 50 characters.
Font FamilyDefines the style applied to the font. This field has a limit of up to 50 characters. The custom font family must match the name of the font face in the CSS file.
Font URLIf the font is not on your local system, you can select this option to add the URL for the font you want to add. The URL must point to a CSS file.
If your custom font is a public font available on the web, you can directly add the URL for the font.
If you upload the font to your private server, ensure that CORS is enabled on the server that provides the custom font file.
Upload FontIf you already have a font downloaded on your local system, choose Upload Font, and click Upload to upload the CSS file for your custom font. The file size should be a maximum of 1 MB.

The custom font file must have the following header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: \*. When defining font URLs in the src attribute, utilizing the https protocol is essential. Refer to the sample CSS code.
- Fallback Font
  • Not all email clients support custom fonts. The following are some of the email clients that support custom fonts:
    • AOL Mail
    • Native Android Mail App(excluding Gmail)
    • Apple Mail
    • iOS Mail
    • Outlook 2000
  • Select from the dropdown list specific system fonts to seamlessly replace custom fonts in unsupported email clients.
  • When defining multiple Fallback fonts, they are used in the order selected (from left to right).
  • Note: Ensure you test the fallback font before publishing the campaign.

    *The fields marked with asterisk sign are mandatory.

    1. Click Add to add the custom font.

    Sample CSS code:

    @font-face {
      font-family: 'Dancing Script';
      font-style: normal;
      font-weight: 400;
      font-display: swap;
      src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/dancingscript/v25/If2RXTr6YS-zF4S-kcSWSVi_szLgiuEHiC4W.woff2) format('woff2');
      unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;
    }
    

    Set Up Default Font

    You can also set up the system and custom fonts as the default font for your email campaigns. Select the font from the Default font dropdown to set up the default font for your email campaigns.

    The default font cannot be deleted. If you still want to delete it, change the default font and then delete the required font.

    Set Up Custom Font as Default Font

    Set Up a Default Font

    Delete Custom Font

    You can delete one or multiple custom fonts to manage your custom font library. To delete a custom font

    1. Select one or multiple custom fonts you want to delete.
    2. Click the icon and select Delete. The Delete font? popup opens, highlighting potential impacts on drafts and saved templates and prompting you to confirm your action.
    3. Select Delete to successfully delete the custom font(s). A confirmation message is displayed.
      Upon deleting the custom font, it is unavailable for use in both the Drag & Drop and Rich Media_ editors.
    Delete Custom Font

    Delete Custom Font

    Edit Custom Font

    You can edit your custom font and update the font details.

    1. Select the custom fonts you want to edit.
    2. Click the icon and select Edit. The Edit Font popup opens.
    3. You can update the required fields related to the custom font and click Save to save the changes.
    Edit Custom Fonts

    Edit Custom Fonts

    The updated custom font is now available for both the Drag & Drop and _Rich Media editors. When making changes to the custom font, an email alert is sent to the user updating the custom font and also to the account admin.

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    Delete or Edit Custom Font

    Editing or deleting custom fonts does not impact running, scheduled, and draft engagements. The modifications take effect for the campaigns created subsequent to your changes.