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I'm developing a Rails app and we need to send emails.
I have installed font-awesome icons through a rails gem (https://github.com/bokmann/font-awesome-rails) (i use .scss)
It works fine on my webpage views but not on emails. At least gmail doesn't display them.
It is normal ? Can I use awesome fonts on email views/layout? If not, where could I find png/svg versions of awesome fonts icons so that the icons I use on my web pages are the same as those I use on my emails (for consistency)?
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Font Awesome is fully open source and is GPL friendly. You can use it for commercial projects, open source projects, or really just about whatever you want. Attribution is no longer required as of Font Awesome 3.0 but is much appreciated: "Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fontawesome.io".
Font Awesome is designed to be used with inline elements. The <i> and <span> elements are widely used for icons. Also note that if you change the font-size or color of the icon's container, the icon changes. Same things goes for shadow, and anything else that gets inherited using CSS.
Navigate to Settings, go to Email Templates, select the email you want to add the image to, and click Edit. You'll need to click the Source Icon < >. Don't fret if you haven't used HTML before, we'll help you do it like a pro. Click the Source Icon < > again, and you'll see how your image looks.
To insert an icon, add the name of the icon class to any inline HTML element. The <i> and <span> elements are widely used to add icons. All the icons in the icon libraries below, are scalable vector icons that can be customized with CSS (size, color, shadow, etc.)
You can't use webfonts reliably in html emails. Some clients might respect and render them, but the majority don't.
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You can use this website to convert the icons into images, and then simply download the images and upload them to Imgur. From there you can use <img> tags to link to the Imgur images.
Edit:
A better solution would be to host the images on your own server with the same domain as your email's domain. This will increase the chance of images automatically being displayed on your emails, as they are normally hidden until the user decides to view them.
For example, if I used [email protected] to send emails, I'd host the images on mydomain.com
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You can embed them as images in your email. You can use fa2png.io which converts the font awesome icons to png of required size as well as color.
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