Fix Custom Font Fallback Overrides in iOS Mail (Apple) — ActiveCampaign Guide for Financial Services & Banking
Financial emails carry high-compliance requirements. Layout collapses, overlapping text, or accessibility failures can lead to compliance audits and client confusion. Below is the targeted integration guide to fix Custom Font Fallback Overrides inside iOS Mail (Apple) templates when using ActiveCampaign.
Technical Breakdown
iOS Mail (Apple) uses the WebKit Mobile which lacks support for standard rendering rules. This causes Custom Font Fallback Overrides elements to break or collapse when rendering templates.
ActiveCampaign Behaviors
ActiveCampaign's editor parses HTML template imports and automatically cleans inline attributes, which can break VML tags. Always use absolute styles and avoid relying on classes. Enforce strict WCAG color contrast standards across your statement tables and summary grids to ensure legibility and regulatory compliance.
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 ActiveCampaign campaign manager, make sure you configure your links to run via %UNSUBSCRIBELINK%.
<!--[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 ActiveCampaign
Copy the fixed VML or table wrapper code block from the remediation box above.
Insert an 'HTML block' from the layout builder panels. Avoid standard text boxes, as the ActiveCampaign parser might strip conditional MSO comment strings on saving.