How do I make the font larger in Mail?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.4
coles66 wrote:
I want to make the fonts larger as they are too small for me to read
In Mail app Mail > Preferences, then click Fonts & Colours and set it accordingly.
coles66 wrote:
I want to make the fonts larger as they are too small for me to read
In Mail app Mail > Preferences, then click Fonts & Colours and set it accordingly.
wridol wrote:
I do realized I can set larger text in Preferences, but then I'm sending that larger text out on my emails
No. Preferences only affect what you see. To potentially affect what the recipients see, you have to set the font size in the New Message pane for each outgoing individually.
In Mail's Fonts & Colors preference pane:
You can set your personal font in the New Message pane for each outgoing, and the recipient should see it if they have the same font installed at their end, and as long as they have not set their email app to display "plain text only." If they don't have the same font, or they have chosen only plain text, their system will substitute a different one.
For emails sent to you, Mail should automatically use the font chosen by the send as long as they have chosen to send "rich text" (instead of "plain text") and as long as your machine has the same font installed. If it doesn't, your machine will substitute something else.
Many more thanks, Tom, different fonts and sizes show up just fine if set in the New Message pane. My solution will be to set Preferences to something like Times or Arial and send my emails out with New Message pane set to me personal font.
Thanks so much, Old Toad, and I apologize for asking the wrong question. What I meant was I need to enlarge the display in Mail because my sight is worsening, and Command+ doesn't do it for Mail. Any help you can give would be appreciated...
Father William
I do realized I can set larger text in Preferences, but then I'm sending that larger text out on my emails which I don't want to to do. I'm hoping to find a way to make my reading easier without sending oversized text to others who don't need it. I'd appreciate any thoughts about whether that is possible and, if so, how to do it...
Thank you, Tom and Toad, this solves the problem I presented, and I have another question: is there a way Apple Mail will let me set a personal font for what I send out and allow the fonts of emails sent to me to not be displayed in my personal font but in the font of the sender?
More thanks, Tom, but in my case all messages, my outgoing and those incoming get displayed in my personal font chosen in the Mail Preferences. Are you saying I should set my personal font each time I send an email which would mean not setting it in Preferences. If so, what do I set in Preferences to allow the fonts used by others to be shown when I open their emails -- or is this even possible in Apple Mail? And, if not, can you recommend an email program that will let me do what I'm talking about?
wridol wrote:
More thanks, Tom, but in my case all messages, my outgoing and those incoming get displayed in my personal font chosen in the Mail Preferences.
If incomings are using your personal font, it would appear that they are Plain Text and not Rich Text.
Mac users often think they are sending rich text when they are not -- to do that they need to set everything in the New Message pane.
Try sending yourself a message using a totally different font and huge size, all set in the New Message pane. Does it keep these features when you look at it in your inbox?
I want to make my email text larger
Read the answers above. It explains how.
I want to make the fonts larger as they are too small for me to read
Thank you very much. I have now changed the fonts. Brilliant.
How to make font larger?
