Can I override the reference to the style sheet or individual style? I assume so, or hope at least. Our platform is weird like this.

I should have used the syntax... Sorry about this. Perhaps this is better (scope preview)

https://litmus.com/scope/lgbp9unwm5so

Again, it's ugly... but what can you do? Really want those serif fonts to come through on iPhone/Pad.

We always need 2 way with a crazy amount of custom data fields. This helps us with some major segmentation and querying. We also run events and a directory from this service. Le sigh.

Sure! Just don't judge the design. It's probably the ugliest thing ever... it was an email that had to match a print piece exactly (totally backward and silly). Here's the code, minus the media queries and other misc css.

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="FFFFFF">
    <tbody><tr><td style="color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-size:2px;" class="hide" height="3" bgcolor="FFFFFF">
The George Washington University | Division of Development & Alumni Relations
</td></tr>
<tr>
            <td class="hide" width="640" height="10">
            </td>
            </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="center">
<table class="w640" width="640" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" bgcolor="FFFFFF" style="border:3px solid #00517e">
                <tbody>

          <tr>
                                <td class="w640" width="627" bgcolor="FFFFFF">
<table  align="center" class="w640" width="627" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="FFFFFF" >
        <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td class="w640" width="627">
<table  class="w640" width="627" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" valign="top" >
                            <tbody>
<tr><td class="w640" width="627" colspan="3" align="center" valign="top">
<img style="display: block;" src="http://development.gwu.edu/email/banners/stw_header.gif" editable="true"  class="w640" width="627" align="top" alt="The George Washington University">
</td></tr>
<tr><td height="20" colspan="3"></td></tr>
                            <tr>
            <td class="w15" width="20" ></td>
                                <td style="font-size:18px; color:#444444; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, serif;" class="w640" width="625" align="center">
[Content]
                                </td>
            <td class="w15" width="20"></td></tr>
<tr><td height="20" colspan="3"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="w640" width="627" colspan="3" align="center">
<img style="display: inline;" src="http://development.gwu.edu/email/images/gw_360.gif" editable="true"  class="w580" width="350" align="top"></td></tr>
                            <tr><td height="15" colspan="3"></td></tr>
                        </tbody>
                  </table>
          </td>
        </tr>

    </tbody>
</table>
                                </td>
          </tr>
<tr><td style="color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-size:2px;" class="hide" height="3" bgcolor="FFFFFF">

</td></tr>

            </tbody>
</table>

<tr><td class="w640" width="640">
<table style="color: #777; text-decoration: none; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-size:10px" class="hide" width="640" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" bgcolor="FFFFFF">
        <tbody>
<tr><td height="10" bgcolor="FFFFFF" class="w640" colspan="3"></td></tr>
                 <tr>
<td width="5"></td>
            <td class="w640" align="left" valign="top">
<span class="hide">The George Washington University<br>
<a style="color: #777; text-decoration:none;" href="#">2100 M Street NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20052</a>
              <br><a style="color: #777; text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.alumni.gwu.edu">alumni.gwu.edu</a> | <a style="color: #777; text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.giving.gwu.edu">giving.gwu.edu</a>
<br><br></span><span class="text">
You have received this email message because of your affiliation with <a style="color: #777; text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.gwu.edu">The George Washington University</a>. You may manage your <a style="color: #777; text-decoration:underline;" href="http://connect.gwu.edu/site/CO">email preferences</a> at any time.</span>
       </td>
<td width="5"></td>
       </tr>

</tbody>
</table>
<tr>
            <td class="hide" width="640" height="15">
            </td>
            </tr>
  </td></tr>
  </td></tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Thanks Jason. The comma thing was a mistake when I was typing it out. The original contained the semi-colon. I tried copying your code exactly and got the same result. iOS reverted the serif fonts back to Arial.

Is it an issue with quotes around the font names? I can't seem to figure this out... and it seems like it would be super simple. I even tried using span tags instead.