companies are failing to stand out from the crowd when it comes to day to day correspondence with clients by using the same tired default font settings on emails and documents.

Oh, I didn’t know there were e-mail clients supporting @font-face rules already :)

Jens

Well, quite. Some marketing bod in our company wanted us to add a message to our sig blocks and told us to use the corporate font. I sent a reply pointing out that as soon as we sent these messages to anybody external, it’d most likely turn into Arial or Courier or God-knows-what...
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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster’s stopped working.

I’m not surprized 65% of UK office managers have never considered using anything other than TNR or Arial. They’re office managers, not designers, aesthetes or typographers.

Jens, your joke is in poor taste.

j a m e s

No reason why @font-face can’t work with HTML based email. There were some people who worked out how to do it using Outlook Express (HTML+EOT) five or six years ago.