Email Not Displaying Correctly in Gmail: Fix Custom Font Fallback Overrides for Campaign Monitor for eCommerce Campaigns
In eCommerce email marketing, rendering issues directly tank conversion rates and cart recoveries. Product grids, checkout CTAs, and discount banners must display flawlessly to prevent purchase drop-offs. Below is the targeted integration guide to fix Custom Font Fallback Overrides inside Gmail App (iOS & Android) templates when using Campaign Monitor.
Technical Breakdown
Gmail App (iOS & Android) uses the WebKit / Blink which lacks support for standard rendering rules. This causes Custom Font Fallback Overrides elements to break or collapse when rendering templates.
Campaign Monitor Behaviors
Campaign Monitor wraps custom blocks in dynamic edit tags, which can break the column flow inside Outlook. Ensuring correct class names is essential. Double-check your dynamic product feed blocks. When injecting product loops from your catalog, ensure width sizes are explicitly handled to keep columns from overlapping.
Remediation Code Block
To prevent Outlook's Times New Roman fallback override, wrap your custom font declarations inside an @media block that Outlook ignores, or use MSO conditional statements to override font-families specifically for Microsoft Word rendering engines. In your Campaign Monitor campaign manager, make sure you configure your links to run via [unsubscribe].
<!--[if mso]>
<style type="text/css">
body, table, td { font-family: Arial, sans-serif !important; }
</style>
<![endif]-->
<style>
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat&display=swap');
</style>Live Code Sandbox Test
How to Deploy inside Campaign Monitor
Copy the fixed VML or table wrapper code block from the remediation box above.
In Campaign Monitor, click the 'Source' button on your selected editable text region, or edit the template code files directly. Ensure you append the 'class="cs-editable"' flag if you need inline editing later.