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Using Licensed Fonts in Emails
Does anyone know how to safely serve a licensed font for use in an email?
fonts.com says it's ok to use their fonts in email by self-serving it, as long as you can prevent people from hotlinking to it. The only solution I've found to do this is to use the server to reject any requests that don't have the whitelisted domain in the document.referrer value. I don't think email clients will have this value set in a predictable way. Is it possible to do this some other way?
I've checked out this post:
http://stylecampaign.com/blog/2015/02/web-font-services-for-email/
Does anyone have experience using anyone of these services for using a licensed font in an email?
I need to update that post as a couple of those have since given the go-ahead to use their web fonts in email. Hoefler & Co have https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-in-email and when I last contacted fonts.com (Nov 2016), they told me that their license now covers email via self-hosting and sent me here: https://www.fonts.com/support/faq/how-to-self-host-web-fonts
I've mainly used MyFonts and independent foundries self hosting vs. fonts.com so I can't speak to any quirks, but MyFonts was straightforward.
Thanks for posting. I am interested in this too. Myfonts.com mentions a Server type license too. Has anyone used anything similar with commercial fonts?