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Android 4.4.2 Default Email Minimum Font Size Solution

Reggie Geissler posted 2014-09-09 17:57:19

Litmus is currently not showing results for Android 4.4.2 native email client. This is unfortunate because the native email client has a minimum font size of 14px. For our emails the sub footer navigation must be 11px. Regardless of recommendations or general opinions of small font in emails, this is the disired size and there needs to be a way to make it work. Please only respond with solutions to making the font size smaller and not the usage of the size. Thanks!

Michael Muscat replied 2014-09-11 12:02:12

Here's something I posted on campaign monitor a year ago. It worked at the time, but be warned there are side effects.

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 0) {
    body {
        zoom: 2;
        -webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
        -webkit-transform: scale(0.5,0.5);
        position: absolute;
        width: 200%;
    }
}

I've since learned to go with the flow when it comes to android, most of the time you can get away by not setting a fixed line-height.

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Nicholas Spowart replied 2015-05-11 08:59:59

Thanks for that, Michael.
Side effect being the: "weird text-wrapping issues on Android with long blocks of text.."
The fix I found was injecting a pixel transparent gif under a class for all TDs that had text in it.

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 0) {
body { zoom:2; -webkit-transform-origin:0 0; -webkit-transform:scale(0.5, 0.5); width:200%; position:absolute; }
body .textFix { background-image:url("empty.gif"); background-repeat:repeat; }
}

Freemium User replied 2015-09-29 13:28:47

Here's a problem, i am having those LONG blocks of text on android only aswell. Tried Everything but can't seem to get it to work? Very anoying and i can't get it fixed.
Any idea's?

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