Email Testing tools

A week or so ago I was looking for an email testing service that would take an email campaign and send me back screenshots of the email in different email clients (Outlook, Mail, Lotus Notes, etc). I found several and thought I would share.

Here’s my list so far, ranked best to worst:

1. Litmus (http://litmusapp.com/email-testing) Cost: Free to $199/mo.
2. Campaign Monitor (http://www.campaignmonitor.com/testing) Cost: $5 a test
3. MailChimp (http://www.mailchimp.com/add-ons/inboxinspector) Cost: $29 for 3 tests
4. LyrisHQ (http://www.lyris.com/solutions/lyris-hq/email-delivery/inbox-snapshot) Cost: $299/mo.

If I missed any or my information is no longer correct, please leave a comment.

Web safe fonts

I am working on a presentation and wanted to compile a list of fonts that work well on both Mac & PC. Keep in mind that different browsers and operating systems will display these fonts differently. Mac is known to have better font handling that Windows so make sure to test the list below on different computers before deciding on a font for your next project.

For the Mac fonts I have included acceptable substitutes as well. The fonts are listed below in order of the most common to both operating systems to less common based on a variety of sources.